victim to victor

it's something we hear so often as christians-- we claim victory in the name of Jesus. until recently though, I didn't know what it looked like to put that truth into practice.

there are going to be days where we wake up and don't "feel" the truth that sin, shame, struggles don't have a hold on our lives any longer in Christ's name. we are going to feel the weight of living in a broken and sin-ridden world and fall prey to the lies of the enemy.

I fall into the fleshly desire to claim the victim daily- forgetting that whatever relational struggle, feeling of anxiety or shard of sin that makes itself known isn't against or about me at all- it's against Jesus.

Jesus, whose life bled out on a cross to claim the grounds that the enemy had taken ahold of when sin entered the world.

it seems like there's a hold on christians in regards to boldly declaring the power that we claim. power that is not ours by nature, but ours by gift. we get to let the whole world know that we are sanctified, whole, and redeemed because of nothing we have done or can do but because of our kind Savior who gave everything for us.

chains have no choice but to break when the name Jesus is declared over our broken world.

declared. not meekly believed and whispered in prayer. shouted from the mountain tops to all nations.

"strengthen your feeble knees!!!!!" as is written in Isaiah... wield the truth that you have been rescued and made whole as a sword-- it is a weapon that we are called to USE against the enemy.

so the life of a Christ follower doesn't look like passively living- it looks like agreement that the enemy does not get to whisper his lies over us, over our people. and it looks like speaking truth boldly regardless of circumstance.

wake up. claim the victory. squash the enemy.

enough said.

"but in all these things we overwhelmingly

conquer through Him who loved us"

~romans 8:37