Beware!!! The enemy is on rampage

Have you noticed that these days, believers celebrate the challenges and negative things going on in their lives? We look sad often, discussing only the challenges we are going through, celebrating them without intending to, and in the process we then forget to celebrate the goodness of God. It has become acceptable to wallow in self-pity. Though it is sometimes our way of soliciting support and pity from men hoping that they would fix the problem; it is eating into and destroying the very fiber of our belief, causing us to lose faith instead thereby making it more difficult for us to receive from God. 

Hebrews 6: 15 “Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.

In times past, believers went through pain and great difficulties but instead of celebrating their pain, they set their eyes on the Lord and the joy that was set before them celebrating the “goodness of God” which today, would probably not be considered goodness. Yet they kept at it enduring hardness as soldiers. Today, our story is different. If you struggle to focus on God, you are considered inhuman. Being human for us now is to lament and wallow in self-pity if anything goes wrong. Are we so spoilt that we have become “God’s brats?” Remaining babies in Christ, we are refusing to come to maturity; how can we then enjoy the benefits that are ours?

We have been so misled and blinded by satan that preferring darkness, we reject light. It is darkness to remain in a state of self-pity instead of rising above it. This idea of “celebrating our humanity” above all else; though subtle, is one of satan’s most potent tools for destroying believers today. We have to be careful not to celebrate our “humanity” above all else. As believers we have the privilege of operating at God’s original predestined level for man. 

Philippians 4: 8 “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” 

Of course, even at that level, there would be situations and/or challenges that would cause us to weep and want to give up for even Jesus had to face such situation; but like Him, we must refuse to allow the emotions we feel overwhelm us. At some point in Gethsemane, He willfully focused on God so that He received strength to align with God’s plans and declared “not my will but thine will be done.” As soon as He made the decision to rise above that low l