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September 13 - September 22, 2020
Have you ever thrown up your hands, wondering why in the world you keep feeling more like the prodigal son gone back to the hog pen and wishing you could eat their slop, even after you’ve already been welcomed back into your Father’s arms?
It’s starting out with healthy desire. A healthy desire to be seen. Cobwebs don’t have to start off in these nasty dark corners of our souls. No, they can start from places of innocence and purity.
Cobwebs aren’t necessarily major moral failings or criminal activity, just something that keeps you in turmoil and distanced from God.
Sometimes you have to completely stop helping others in order to help yourself.
All too often, we say yes to a relationship with no clue that it will take us down a road of embarrassment and gut-wrenching pain that we couldn’t possibly foresee.
What starts off as good intentions can turn quickly into cobwebs that trap you for years.
People were proud of me. People were telling me how incredible I was. And it felt good.
To be clear: a spider is an agreement with a lie you believe. A cobweb is any medicator that brings false comfort to that lie.
webs cover up the real problem.
put on the belt of truth. John 8:32 tells us that the “truth will set you free.” It’s so true! Think about it for a second. Where does a police officer keep his gun, walkie-talkie, handcuffs, maybe a Taser? On the belt. If the officer has no belt, he has to hold all the weapons with his bare hands, and that’s not gonna work.
The belt of truth gives you freedom to use the remaining weapons.
I saw humanity for what it is. A bunch of imperfect people trying their best to live a good life and make good decisions. And it gave me breath. As it should you.
Gaze at God. Glance at life.
It was absolutely beautiful. The property was fifteen miles from the nearest highway, so there wasn’t any traffic in the distance. No hum of cars or trains rumbling by. It was just our feet tapping the slick grass beneath them. A few times the horses to our left neighed and made other horseish type sounds, as if to say good morning as we walked by them. But it was so quiet. And it was so right.
So much of the struggle we face comes from the enemy feeding us lies and us buying into them.
“Everything is figureoutable.”
it. I ask You simply, could You show me something today that tells me how much I mean to You? Will You show me today something that declares Your love to me? And when You show me, will You open my eyes that I may see and receive it? I will walk with You today and keep my eyes open.
was expecting to waltz with my faith, not to wrestle with it.
when things are bleakest is when God has the most room to work.
What Can You Silence in Your Busy Life to Increase the Decibel Level of the Voice of God?
Jesus didn’t promise a pain-free life. But He did promise He would be with us as we run, skip, limp, crawl, or stumble toward the finish line.
How have you been limiting God by insisting on following your own path? •Can you imagine how much fuller your life could be if you let God lead you?
As complex as our human souls are, each of us likely has more than one spider. More than one lie will stand between us and who we were intended to be.
