Recently I have been living inwardly in such a dichotomy. Life has been awesome up here in Alaska. I feel like God is brining me to a place where nothing satisfies but Him. I have enjoyed fellowshipping with believers, reading and studying the Word, the glory of his creation, and my prayer times in isolation. But in the midst of all of this, there has been a battle going on in my heart. Pride has been competing with loving God. The last few months, the Lord really has been revealing to me my role in His Kingdom. Actually, to say that more accurately, I have begun to believe the role he has declared for me in His Kingdom. Satan hates this. When God's sons and daughters walk in their identity in Christ, there will always be opposition. This is the battle. The enemy wants us to boast in things other than Christ... good things! If he can get us to boast in our God given gifts and talents then we have just turned from bringing glory to God to trying to bring glory to ourselves.
The battle lies within. And it lies without. I believe that true humility comes when our eyes are fixed on Jesus and our boast is in Christ and Christ alone.
As the author of Hebrews says, "Fix your eyes on Jesus" and as Paul says
"May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." Galatians 6:14
thats all for now.
JN
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