The Better More

Psalms 144:2 (MSG) He's the bedrock on which I stand, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight, The high crag where I run for dear life, while he lays my enemies low.

In the New Testament Jesus said in John chapter 15:4, 'dwell in me and I will dwell in you.'

In psalms we see a constant cry for deliverance, the need was on-going. However, although my life is on-going, if I catch that I am in Him, then, although stuff will constantly happen, I am in the safest place.

Being in Him does not stop stuff from happening, stuff happening is a part of growing up. Our enemy's plan is to distract us from knowing where we are. If he can persuade us that we are in the problem then he has won.

These are two different perspectives. In Christ I am safe, in the problem I am in trouble. Which will I choose? Who's report will I believe?

Satan's constant move is to empower the problem, to endeavour to rob us of peace, focus, faith.

I remember the children's song that says 'with Christ in my vessel I can smile at the storm'. Yes Christ is in me BUT more importantly I am in HIM. This changes things.

If Christ is only in my vessel then I am the one buffeted, BUT if I am in Christ and He is in me then He takes the storm, I watch from within. Amen!

Yes stuff happens, people are unfair, some would say life sucks, I would say 'what a journey', I am travelling to the very ends of the earth, with Him, what an adventure. The Northern Lights await.

Yesterday I heard the phrase 'life wasn't meant to be easy', but discovered there's more, 'my child, but with courage: it can be delightful'. It was originally written by George Bernard Shaw.

You know, knowing that there was more, a better more, and to live under the first part, because one of our previous prime ministers quoted 'life wasn't meant to be easy' puts you under. To realise all along there was a better more, I feel ripped off.

This man had unwittingly done the work of our enemy, he robbed us of the full picture. This is exactly what our enemy satan does. He is a liar and a thief. There is only one source of truth, the word of the author not what some twit says about it. Amen!