Overwhelmed Spirit

Psa 143:4  Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

Such emotion.  Being God's is NOT easy.  Being God's means opening up yourself as fair game to Satan and all his evil followers- angels and humans.  Being God's paints a spiritual target all over us so that there isn't an inch of us unmarked for all to see that we belong to God.  When we are so spiritually marked you can just imagine how much unwanted attention is focused on us by the evil ones who want to keep us from Christ.  Is it any wonder that one who belongs to God can cry out with David-  My spirit is overwhelmed within me, my heart desolate.

Being a Christian does NOT mean you are guaranteed any sort of happiness, as far as earthly happiness is concerned. Can we as Christians be content and consoled with the promise we are given? We truly are living on a promise for future peace, future happiness.  Here and now we are almost guaranteed a hard life of constant, non-stop spiritual attack.  We aren't promised any lulls in the attacks either, the evil spiritual entities do not ever grow tired of their work. Our only safety is found in our Savior who overcame so we through Him can overcome.

When we are overwhelmed, when our hearts feel desolate, we can still cling tightly to the hope we can only find in Jesus.  Everything around us can fall apart, but we still need to cling to our Savior and the hope He died to ensure we'd have.  The future hope this is our aim, this is the goal we long for, this is the prize we are running our Christian race towards. Many who run races train long and hard, some train years and years for a single race with the aim to win that race. We, as Christians have to run in this spiritual race with the aim to win the race, and the race does not end until our Savior returns, or we enter the long sleep.  Truly it is a race, a long, long, long race we enter when we become Christians.

Are you spiritually overwhelmed?

Is your heart desolate within you?

1Pe 5:7  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

1Pe 5:9  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

1Pe 5:11  To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Amen.