A great start to 2016 for my blog huh? ha, well at least I gave my blog a new design, let me know what you think of it! :D.
This last week, when I was at work on Sunday, I was taking out the garbage bin to the dumpster outside. I had a thought I should tie the bags up, so I did so. not knowing that when I open the door leading outside, that it was a windy Sunday.
Right as I pushed the bin outside, a bag on top flew from the pile landing a few feet away.
If I had not had the thought to tie up the bag, garbage would of went all over the place and I would of had to pick it all up.
Because I tied it up, the bag was ready for the wind, even though the bag did move, the content inside did not scattered in the wind. so then I started to think...
and I compared it to us, we being the bags, Satan being the wind, and tying the bags to us having a foundation in Christ. depending on how tight we tie the bags, the wind won't be able to open it. in other words, depending on how strong our foundation in Christ is, we will be able to withstand Satan's wind storms. Yes... we will move, being thrown in the mist of the wind, but we won't be lost and scattered in the world.
How tight is our knot?, how strong is our foundation in Christ?..
If I would of hurry and tied the bag fast, without actually giving it a good knot, then it could of burst open in the wind.
Studying the scriptures, praying, going to church, is what makes our foundation. There are times when my foundation is weak, when I tie the "bag" loosely, or don't tie it at all, that is when Satan can come in and tempt us. that is when he can have power over us. that is when his wind storms has taken us so far away from our weak foundation, that we feel like we can never return, that we can never come back to Christ. to rebuild our foundation, to change.
Satan can send temptations, or he can even send his storms during trials we may face in this life, as I like to say. going through trials can either make us or break us, and Satan know this. when we're going through a tough time, Whether it be with sin, or trials. he'll try to tear us down, try to snatch us up in the storm and throw us away from Christ.
And when the storm finally ease up, we look back and the road is so far.. we may think "I have gone to far, I can never come back" it may seem that no one is in sight, but know that Christ is there, he is always there. He drank from the bitter cup out of love for everyone. He did not sip from the cup and called it good. He did not give up on us, why would we give up on Him?
Know that Christ is there, but also know that people are here along the way to help. family, friends, church leaders. we are all on your side. We will help with your foundation, but it is your job to make the plans for them.
Christ calm the tempest, when he was on the boat with his disciples, surely, if we have faith turn to him, we can survive the storms.
As I thought this, the scripture Helaman 5:12 came to mind
"And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."
People can agree or disagree on this scripture. because it says "to drag you down" but the wind got hold of the bag and was able to move it, at least to a certain point.
As I was thinking of this too, another scripture came to mind. Jacob 6:12 "O be wise, what can I say more?" ah, my favorite scripture. it's short, but full of meaning. once we understand the Gospel, have a foundation in Christ, then it's pretty much is.. be wise, what can I say more? :)
Endure to the end, stay strong in the Gospel and you won't regret it
