Oh hello fellow humans! Yes...remember me? I'm the inconsistent blogger who writes when inspiration hits and for the past few months inspiration has been as dormant as this blog...which I believe is the correlation here. Some days I just feel like writing with no real content attached and those are the posts that are a real drag. I have opened up this blog on many accounts over the last several months to write something but the words were lack-luster and unimportant (even to myself).
However, this time I feel like I can share some things that are of note that have been going on in my life and in my brain/heart/soul. So let's give it a go hmm?
Since I have been back in the States and loved on my family and my friends holding them close whenever possible but also spending a significant amount of time alone (some of my own doing and some of circumstantial normalities) I have noticed a few things. I've noticed for one the immense amount of spiritual warfare that this nation is under (although it does happen in other places) and the funny thing is most of the time it feels like normal everyday life. Come to think of it I don't think I have even shared these thoughts out loud.
I have felt this in my own life; When everyday routine comes and goes and suddenly what is so very important spiritually has now been watered down by living a life in routine. After a while it just kind of dawns on you that things that were happening to enrich your spiritual life have now been cut down by this lull of contentment. I don't mean this contentment that Paul talks about in Philippians 4:11-13; to be content in need and in plenty, hungry or well-fed because of Christ's strength. No that's not the kind of contentment I am speaking of because that kind of contentment is not a passive one. Paul's mastery of contentment was because he leaned into Jesus when he was hungry or fed, needing nothing and needing the requirements to simply stay alive.
I'm talking about the contentment that comes when we have a consistency of plenty and our spiritual lives get hung up in the hall closet. Must we be in physical need to feel that then we can rely on Jesus? Absolutely not. Spiritually, we are in need constantly but sometimes we become content to let that part of ourselves take a backseat, I am guilty of this and I know I am not alone.
This is the spiritual warfare I am speaking of in this nation and it is worrisome. Yes, we need Jesus, but we need him all the time not just when we are cold and we take him out of the hall closet and put him on for the temporary purpose of becoming warm again.
This is just what I have noticed since being back in the States in my own life and how I feel spiritual warfare in my own spiritual life and have recognized its traces in others. I am thankful for the Holy Spirit showing me that he is faithful all the time and tells me to come close and in the closeness he shows me my purpose, refining and renewing me for his work!
So pray for me? Also pray for those you know who are stuck in this rut of passive contentment because many do not notice it is happening. Like I said the Holy Spirit is faithful and he will protect and stir the hearts of those who are faithful to him even when stuck in these jams. I know that scholars have probably talked about this subject numerous times and WAY better than I can put it but it is what I have noticed and has been laying on my heart to talk about in the written form.
God is near and I am thankful.
All to God.
