When a prey animal that is too small to hunt alone wants to succeed, it separates the target from the herd.  If it can succeed in removing an animal from the herd—it can gang up on it and kill it.

It is no different in the spiritual realm.

The enemy’s goal is to make us: Alone, Afraid, and Ashamed.

And when we are separated, and full of fear, and afraid for others to know who we are—we are vulnerable.

And that is why this verse, to me, is so freeing:

1 John 1 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

We are not perfect.  We are broken at the very core.  And as I sat and conversed with three different people last week—nothing was more evident than this.

We need Jesus.

We don’t just need Him for our eternity.

We don’t just need Him for our past.

We need Him for right now.

And we need Him because to the core—we are broken.

God doesn’t show up and ask for money.

He doesn’t show up for a fleeting moment and then leave.

He doesn’t waver in His love.

He doesn’t pay half of our toll or give us enough to barely survive.

He shows up and stands with us.

He shows up to tell the enemy that we are off limits.

He shows up to forgive us.

From the moment we step into this world we are ingrained with the idea that either:

  1.  We Are Perfect.  We can do no wrong and pick up our bad habits from everyone else.  As a parent, I used to ask my kids:  “Where did you learn that?”  But the reality is that it was in them before they did it—whether they learned it or not.
  2.  We Are A Colossal Failure.  We are rejected.  We were an accident that just showed up and that others had to deal with.

Some of us oscillate between both of these.  One minute we are a Colossal Failure and the next we are Perfect.  And like a prey animal in the grip of a death roll from a crocodile we die a slow, and painful, death.  We go from “I don’t need anyone—I am just fine to do this alone” to “I am worthless”.

But the reality is this:

We were born BROKEN and, without God, we are worthless.

But, with Him, we are given the gift of everything.

It Is Our Only Hope

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J