A friend sent me this video. Normally, I watch and let them pass by. However, just this morning I was talking with a brother about the Christian struggle. We spoke about being real, about our walk and learning to fully surrender to Jesus when under temptation. Is it not by His power and by His Spirit alone that we have any hope of escape from temptation (1 Cor 10:13)? Yet there are so many things that pull us away from Christ and into this world. With our self-righteous attitudes, we define spiritual battles with things like politics, social ills and everything else outside ourselves. The real question is, what do we truly love? What replaces Christ in our lives? Satan doesn't have to conjure up elaborate schemes, he merely has to leave us to our own lustful desires. There is our spiritual battle! It is the all consuming lust for money, sex, success, affirmation, esteem, you name it. Yet we know that:
There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12
Truly, is there anything, anything in life greater than Christ? I say No, nothing!
How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this? Lifehouse, Everything
Here is a story (a real one for many, I'm sure) nicely told - artistically.