Fight the Tide

Have you ever asked God for something? Maybe a favor, or maybe to see changes take place? What do you say in your prayer? Does it sound something like this: Lord if you would please just do this for me I will be a faithful and humble servant of yours? Then after a couple weeks of nothing, you wonder why God didn't do it.

As a Christian, we start out as on fire for God as anyone you will ever see. You have this passion for Jesus that is unlike anything anyone will ever witness. Trials and tribulations will come up against a new Christian and it doesn't even seem to phase them. After a while though, the passion seems to dwindle and everything becomes routine. There is no longer any fight left in you. You stop fighting and you start drifting.

To live for God, you have to fight the tide, and when you stop fighting, you fall away from God. It's a slow fade from being on fire to a dwindling ember. When we are on fire for God, we are in complete submission to everything He wants us to do. As we fall away we stop the submission and go into this false pretense of fighting for the Lord. We even trick ourselves into thinking that we are working for the Almighty. When we stop fighting for God, we become part of the problem.

God wants to bless us and give us riches beyond measure, we just have to take the first step. We have to reach out for him and He will reach out to us faster than you can blink an eye. Remind yourself that you can't stop fighting the tide, because if you do, you will drown, and it will be no one's fault but your own. Check yourself, are you still fighting?