Toy Soldiers

"I want to get away, I want to fly away...yeah, yeah, yeah."

Im so sorry for the hurt I've caused you. Life is so fragile. Life is like a car going 200 mph, where a tiny stone in the road could potentially throw us off course. Again, life is also like a frog in hot water. If you place him in hot water he will immediately jump out to save his life, but if you put him in room temperature water and then turn the heat up underneath him gradually, by the time he realizes he is in danger, he would have already been killed by the boiling water.

Why am I saying these things? Im saying them because I need a reality check! The long short of it is simply this: I cant live my life the way I want to! In fact, its not my life in the first place! When my life was surrendered to Jesus Christ, I in essence said, "More of you, less of me." Right about now, it doesn't feel like it's about Him at all. Ask me the last time I read my Bible. Well, last night I finally picked it up, but before then it was weeks! See that's a big deal. Let me show you why. How many days can you go without drinking water of kind? Personally, I cant go a day. If we stop drinking water, we'll eventually get dehydrated and die. So what Im saying is, the Bible is "Living Water" and right about now I am feeling spiritually dehydrated.

How did this happen? Well, it was a process. It's like when you pull a flower out of the ground. Even days after the flower's root has been disconnected from the ground, it can still look alive. But after a couple weeks, you notice the leaves start to wither, and the flowers start to fall off, and the overall color begins to change from the vibrant greens, yellows and reds, to a deathly, dried, brown and black. In a nutshell, thats how we become spiritually dehydrated. We think we're doing just fine by not staying in the Bible, by not being grounded in what we know is Truth, but really we're already dead, and we're just lookin "righteous".

Well, I'm tired of looking the part, Im tired of playing the part, day by day, I want to live the part. See, we all have patience as long as there isn't a reason to be anxious. We all have love so long as there isn't a reason to hate. We all have joy as long as there isn't a reason to be depressed. Well, thats not really patience, love or joy even though from the outside it sure does look like it. Just like Im not really righteous just because it looks like it. When trials and unbearable circumstances come, when we've lost a job, a loved one or just feel like life isn't fair. Its when we can experience these things yet still say, "though He slay me, I will still trust Him." It's knowing that we are taken care of every step of the way; and because of this we can do things with the strength of God where anyone else in our shoes would simply die. It's not us, it's simply His power in us.

Righteousness is simply being in right standing with God. Anyone can be in right standing with Him when were isolated from the world, but the true test of righteousness comes when we are mixed in a world filled with sin, and our actions become our greatest asset and tool for the Kingdom of God.