Do not let go

After the excitement of knowing God and being baptized with the Holy Spirit, came that time to face reality. Time for me to wake up and exercise my faith to the spiritual truths of this world. Many battles began opposing my faith and leading me to the path of doubting my spirituality.

I received blows of hunger, desperation, mockery, shame and being lonely. At that time, I had very few reasons why I should not let go of the gift I have been given by God. I had many, but beyond count reasons why I  should drop the towel. I was attacked by this painful reality almost every minute of the day.

There was a time where I felt like my decision of giving my life to God was a mistake because now my life has gone from bad to worse. It troubled me but I kept searching for more reasons why I shouldn't give up.

I'll be honest, I never found more reasons than the few I already had. All I could hear from my faith was, "Thato, if you need more reason why you should stay with God, keep going with Him and you will know".

It was true. You will never know something if you have never experienced it, right? That was my faith.

And I know because I have counselled many people lately who are attacked by the same problem that I faced and I always tell them I don't regret my decision to stay with God. It has been amazing because I have learnt to "be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that my labor is not in vain in the Lord." 1 Corinthians 15:58

Keeping this in mind, regardless of who you are, your position or your status, God has got your back.

Do not give away what you have received because "it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame." Hebrews 6:4-6

Not only will it be impossible because you have left the faith, NO. But because you have put Him in to open shame - doubting His power for eternity.

If you let go of your faith, of the Holy Spirit entrusted in you to give you eternal life, you are OPENLY saying that God is a failure. You are saying He is not eternal but He will eventually come to an end. Then it will be impossible to save you again because you would have no part in His kingdom.

Let those who have an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Stay blessed.