Today I begin with my first post, but this is also the day that I challanged myself to write a journal three times a week beginning next week. Usually this will be after chapel @ MVNU, as was today.
What stuck out the most to me was not in Joe's serman, but what one of the people who gave their testimony said. She was talking about her struggle with sin, and she said that she had always been fighting the battle like it was "Me against Satan." She had always lived in defeat, because she never gave it to the Lord. I think that I, and most Christians struggle with this same thing, day after day. In fact, I struggle with this so much, that I have made it a priority lately, to confess my struggle to God every day, maybe even more than once - whether I sin or not - and just say, "All right Jesus, I'm week and I am going to be struggling with this today, so I need your help, because I can't do it without you. It's all you, I give up."
Satan, or whatever demon is lurking behind us, want's us to play it, "Me against Satan," because he knows that I will loose that way. As a Christian, it's me that Satan wants, but I must give him Jesus. Jesus is my only defense, becasue it is only through him that i am justified, and only through him, that he has made me take my focus off myself and put it onto the light, him. If I surrender to Jesus, then Jesus will go before me, and Satan must retreat.