Feeling defeated......

Today I was sitting in church..... and I was thinking about my own struggle with sin... and how this world can make us feel defeated sometimes...... and my pastor was talking about how if we want to be on God's Team... the WINNING team... then we need to get serious about him. He asked the question to us... Are we more like Christ today than we were last week??... if not we need to get serious!!!

He talked about how he went shopping for potato chips.... and he thinks he's getting a full bag of chips but when he opens it up... he looks in to see mostly air... and very little of what looked so appealing on the outside.... he said sometimes we are "Potato Chip Christians"..... we make it look real good on the outside..... but if you open us up... it's a lot of air... and not much of a real relationship with Jesus Christ....

Then after leaving church I heard some very disheartening news.... I began to feel defeated..... I looked around and thought "this world... is SO far from God's law..... myself included sometimes..." but then something else the pastor said came to my mind...... we ARE on the WINNING team!!!! Yes we will struggle.... yes the world will obey their own law instead of God's..... and try to get others to believe that God's will is contradicting his word (which NEVER happens)....... yes we will fail sometimes..... yes others we trust and believe in will fail us....... but GOD NEVER WILL! and this is the best part..... we may lose the battles but GOD has already won the WAR!!! God has won!!!!!... HE is still on the throne......!!!! GOD is in control!!!

So I got on my knees.... and said "thank you God.... thank you that I can rest in knowing you have already won! " I prayed for those being deceived..... and I prayed that I keep my eyes open to the truth so that I wont' be deceived..... and I left my room feeling peace..... Please know that I know I'm not perfect!!!!.... and I hope I never pretend to be...... sometimes I am a potato chip christian.....and sometimes I need someone to look at me and say "it's time to get serious"..... today was that day... and I'm so thankful that God laid it on my pastor's heart to preach that sermon today.... not just tickle our ears and tell us what's easy.... but to really confront us... make us think.... and make us look up to our heavenly father..... and get serious about him!