By Lanell Stuart
Have you ever been caught in a spider’s web? Ewe, we react, “How quick
can I get rid of this thing!” It’s sticky and the more we try to resist the
more determined it tries to stay on you.
Life can become entangled like a web. “Just stay away from me,” we tell
Satan. The more determined we become to live for Jesus, the more determined he
is to make you stay in a sad, miserable state of being.
We can become entangled with others lives to the point we just want
“out”. But God is urging you onward. “Don’t give up on the unlovely. Keep
loving them and showing them the way back to God.” I think that is what God
would say to us.
Remember you were once unlovely in God’s sight. Someone took the time to
invest in my life to bring me to the a fullness of loving God again. Someone
took the time to pray for me that I may be brought to the point of saying, “Restore
unto me the joy of my salvation.” (Psalms 51:12, KJV) And it has been restored.
My web is unraveling, slowly. I am returning to Lord’s way for my life.
Returning, to escape the spider’s web that promises rewards for my life, but
never succeeded.
The
Lord is restoring to me the joy of my salvation. You also can obtain that
reward through loving friends and family.
Everyone comes into your life for a season and a reason. We can learn
through each incident in life. The Lord leads in mysterious ways, Paul
announces in his word to the Colossians in Chapter one, verse 27. It says, “To
them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of the
mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” God makes known the
mysteries of our life, which is to know Jesus better.
He says in Ephesians 6:19, “Pray also for me, that whenever I open my
mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery
of the gospel.”
I pray you will not get caught in the spider’s web of deceit that
promises rewards that are not there in the end.
The promises of grandeur and fulfillment do not lay in the promises of
man but in the promises of God. Seek God and all will be added unto you. (My
words paraphrasing from Mt. 6:33 NIV)
“Love the Lord with all thy heart and lean not on your own
understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths
straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6, NIV)
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