Live by Faith

I talked the other day about God Things.  In that post I referred to a verse and how it spoke about righteousness to me.  I have been studying and God’s word has been speaking loudly to me.  But my post today isn’t about what I’ve learned, I’ll talk about that in another post, it’s about another God Thing.

My heart and pride were hurt very deeply yesterday.  On the surface, it probably was a mild issue, but because of many things that have been happening in my life lately…it cut through my heart like a butcher knife.  It made me cry to think that someone could be so callous with my feelings. 

Then I remembered what I had been learning about righteousness; more specifically about living a righteous life and living by faith.  My eyes were opened to the spiritual battle that was going on.  

And a spark was born.

Instead of feeling sorry for myself, my back straightened up and I chose to fight back.  I now recognize just who it is that is attacking me and it’s not people.  They are pawns in a much larger war.  

And it’s a war I will not lose.  Because I have God on my side..and He will win the battle for me.

Yesterday I realized people close to me are being used by satan to break me down.  Today, God reminded me that He will use people as well…in order to bless me.

I have been worrying about how to put oil in the tank this month.  It wasn’t going to happen unless something else didn’t get paid or we ate a lot less than normal.

As I was going out the door to work this morning, I received a phone call from a family member who announced that he had some oil to give me.  You don’t need to know why or what the exact circumstances were.  It is enough to know that he thought of me and my family.  He wasn’t sure exactly how much it would be at the time, but it ended up being enough to get us through the next 4 weeks.

This family member didn’t know that we were struggling, but he thought of us anyways.

That’s what I call a God Thing.

Someday I want to be in the spot where my family member was today.  I want to be used by God to bless someone else when they least expect it.

Put on your armor, my friends.  Live righteously..live by faith.