Tuesday morning, and yours truly was going through his daily routine – getting up early, waiting for my two other apartment dwellers to finish their rounds in the shower (so I can finally do mine), and trying to do my daily morning Bible reading, and then head out.
So, out I went. And I went to my usual spot, and handed out gospel tracts. Everything was hunky-dory except for the one crucial thing that I should have done, before going to my routine in that usual place. I should have taken the time to say my prayers to the LORD GOD (for protection and guidance as to what to say). And so as I was doing my distribution (giving out gospel literature), a certain fellow pass by me and sort of whispered, “Satan, you should be working…” Now I wasn’t sure whether I heard that right or whether I was imagining it. But that one got to me like a sharp knife. You see, I started doing this ministry just recently (about 6 months ago). And I was doing it to mind of make up for the many years that I wasted doing my own selfish thing, and all the while the blessed LORD GOD had saved me from my pitiful condition (my sin and sinful self), and ever so patiently waiting for me turn back to HIM.
It was about 39 years before when the blessed LORD took me out of my sinful, pitiful state, and brought me to HIMSELF through the LORD JESUS. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of CHRIST: for it is the power unto salvation to everyone that believeth;” (Romans 1:16). That very power that brought me to HIMSELF (even the LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST) is the same power that got me started and keeps me going in this ministry. And it is not all garden of roses. It was a relieving feeling, this heavenly grace of the LORD JESUS, that have me leave the worldly lifestyle (working for self), and submitting to the “calling or vocation wherewith (I am) ye are called” (Ephesians 4:1).
It is a struggle but the grace of the LORD GOD sustains me every day. But all isn’t smooth sailing. The evil one is constantly roaming/walking “about, seeking whom he may devour.” (1 Peter 5:8) as you may well know already. But actually experiencing it is something else. The wicked one is so malevolent! But greater is HE (and HIS grace on me). Also, come to think of it, the writer of Hebrews exhorts us to “lay aside every weight which doth so easily beset us” (Hebrews 12:1). And that “no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life” (2 Timothy 2:4). So there. I am throwing that “junk” that the enemy just hurled at me. And use the HOLY WORD of ALMIGHTY GOD to ward off his fiery darts. To the LORD GOD be glory (in CHRIST JESUS).
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