a little gecko blog

     Most people don’t know it, but shipwrecking your faith is much like a car wreck. You are sailing along blissfully, thinking everything is wonderful, when, BAM, something hits you broadside. Maintaining saving faith in today’s world is HARD. We will all face challenges to what we believe, especially when it comes to those who think seriously about eternity. Jesus, our perfect model, had to face Gesthemene. Hard times indeed, and no escape or evasion. We believers / followers/ disciples of Jesus are no greater than our Master and must face the same kind of trials and difficulties; daily.

     Ever thought about WHY Jesus prayed? He was, after all, a part of God Himself, yet Jesus chose to pray. We must also be left alone at times so that we can find out that God wants us to find Him. In our most honest moment, that moment of choice, the free will, that begs us to seek Him out when something happens to us that we don’t understand. It has to be you alone with God–totally surrendered, vulnerable and abandoned to what God has to offer. It must be “His will be done” not ours. When Daniel prayed earnestly, seeking an answer from God, it took the angel messenger two weeks to reach Daniel to deliver the answer. We are under spiritual warfare and must face courage under fire to truly understand what free will is and making our own choices means, when we ask God, Why?

     We must perceive what God wants us to do. Sometimes we have to use “loud cries” like Jesus did in Gesthemene. All of our self-made crutches must be cast aside. We must decide to stand with our answer and never quit. Falling on one’s sword, giving up, taking the easy way, is cowardly. God builds our character, and faith, by placing us through trials; circumstances that are beyond our control, because that is the only way we will find the path into the light. There can be no victor unless someone surrenders. Someone has to submit, belly up, humble. God cannot direct us through His Spirit and Jesus’ example until we do. We must realize that sometimes God operates in a “ministry of absence.” He wants us to find him of our own free choice. “Some days the Dragon slays you, and some days you slay the Dragon.”