WHAT HAPPENED?

By Rick Mathes

Galatians 5:7 (NASB77) ⁷  You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

You started so well when you answered the altar call and gave your heart to Jesus. Your heart was bursting with emotion at just the thought of your sins being forgiven. All you wanted was to skip through the tulips and to get a Holy Ghost bear hug from all your new brothers and sisters. Then the cold truth of reality hit, not much had changed and the world was still the hell you expected to escape. What happened? Who cut in on you and made you veer from that narrow road to the enter happiness and ecstatic bliss you were promised.

You are holding back. Why? What have you to lose if you unleash the Holy Spirit within you? For some reason you have been avoiding strong believers, missing services and giving up on daily bible studies. You have been drawn to sinful distractions and peope who are not very loving nor excited about the faith that got you safely this far.

With internet information and knowledge circling the globe at lightning speed it becomes so much easier to quit the old faith for new ideas. I can’t keep up with it all no matter how hard I try so I have put on the blinders to everything except those matters that our sovereign Lord is in the midst of. Without doing so you will lose your first joy, the joy of your salvation and all the blessings that go to the heart of peace with your new family of believers.

Satan knows how to surround you with the toys and worldly pleasures that distract your eyes from the household of the Lord to the flaming, blow-torching fiends of the darker places. Remaining worldly and self-centered will reward you with a degree of self-destruction and self-emulation. When the flames are curing up your legs you will wonder, “Who cut in on me? What happened?”

The truth will soon come quickly into focus; you had no part of the day for Jesus. You were keeping the self-faith, fighting the wrong fight when all of a sudden you fell flat on your face at the feet of Father Lucifer. What happened next?