Psalm 69:5 O God, You know my folly; My wrongs are not hidden from You.

As I yell from the top of my lungs, I feel every syllable vibrating off my lips and echoing from my heart.  The setting is in the chambers of my heart.  Listening to the shakiness of my voice as I stand in the shadows, hiding.  Hiding where it was once comfortable for me but has now turned into a deceitful place.  Is this what The Bible meant regarding the heart of man?  That it is deceitfully wicked?  Perhaps, I am just now realizing how deceitful it is towards me.  Maybe it is not so much of it turning into a deceitful place, but me discovering that it has always been, deceitful.  Could it be that I have lived in the dark for so long that I have allowed darkness to be my answer?   Darkness wasn’t darkness anymore.  In fact, it became my guide for understanding.  Understanding that was built on excuses.  If I stay in the dark, then I have no need to be held accountable.  Well, things have always been this way.  Why change now?  Here Jesus is with this awesome attire called freedom, but I’ve gotten used to bondage as my go-to apparel.

Suddenly, I hear a voice calling my name.  He promises things will never be the same.  It was different, a good different. Since I am used to the wrong thing the right thing felt strange.  What are YOU doing calling my name?  I did not ask You to come. Leave me to my darkness! He says, oh but you did.  Your actions of self-destruction was a cry for help.  Your thoughts are wreaking havoc and I love you too much for you to live so [erratic]ally.   I breathe.  Looking over my life, I finally see that I was living in the dark that was familiar to me.  He sees me naked and yet I ask Him to strip me!  Okay, Lord I surrender, YOU can have me!  Now, what once was a zone for hiding was now a place for destruction.  Rapidly feeling my heart erupting and seeing His Love sculpting, it again.  Even though I was formed in the womb, it was a rebirth from within.  The stripping was also lifting the burdens that were crippling.  His Light was beaming on what I clung to which was sin.  Now, I win.  Now, His Light shines and my new life begins.

This is victory.  This is what was hidden due to my enemy.  This is why we war. Against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places galore!  They fight to keep us in darkness because that is their battlegrounds.  We fight as overcomers because His Light tears their walls down!  So strip me.  Strip me every day because I need You in every way.  Help me to obey.  Let not Yor Spirit delay in times of weakness.  I know You are forgiving, but giving in is beneath me.  I want to press towards the Mark even if it kills me.  It kills me. Denying is dying.  A renewed mind is my spirit reviving which led me to stop fighting.

So daily my strip leads to Your glory being revealed.  Through Your Blood, Jesus, my eternity has been sealed.  Yes through Your Blood, my death has no thrill.  Yes, every inch of my heart I ask that Your Spirit fills.  My desire now is to do Your Will.

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