The world is fond of promoting lies. One of the most common and prevalent ones, that I am sure everyone has heard is this: Experience is the best teacher.
Oh is it really? Think of the time you were excluded from a play group during recess at school. How about all the times you were the last one picked for a sports team? Now remember the times when you saw a parent favor one of your siblings in seeming preference to you. How about going for a job interview, knowing you are highly skilled and more than qualified, yet someone else gets picked time after time? Now how did all of these scenarios and others by the thousands make you feel? They made you feel worthless, rejected, ashamed, afraid, determined not to try again, etc ad infinitum.
Is experience really the best teacher if you are learning to avoid situations and people, having a framework built inside of you that gives you such a low opinion of yourself? This is your emotional skeleton that is being built. It is a framework of lies, subtle manipulations by the whispering, destructive spirits that surround us, feeding from our vital forces while robbing us of health both emotionally and physically. It is all calculated to keep us from becoming the wondrous creation that Almighty God created us to be, the sons and daughters who will destroy the kingdom of darkness. But as long as we are held in bondage to all of these lies we are nothing but slaves of the corrupt spirits manipulating us like so many puppets.
Ah, but there is an answer. His name is Jesus Christ! He came to save us spirit, soul and body. He came to heal all the parts of our being. He came to bring abundant Life in place of the death that has been our mainstay. The soul of man is where all the battles take place. This is the battleground where wars more violent than WWII are being fought daily. And we must be victorious! Victory has already been assured for us if only we will put our hands in the Savior's and trust Him to lead us to that safe place He has already provided. There is a green pasture with quiet waters where He wants to take all of us, a place of rest from the onslaughts of this enemy we cannot even see.
Rise up, mighty warriors of God! It is time to take back the territories that have been stolen from us and our generations. Victory in Jesus!
