The Key of Promise

I was reading the book pilgrims progress and I gained a practical application to issues I currently am conquering.

This Key of Promise Idea is amazingly true. God's promises are sure and can unlock the gate of despair, we need not be tortured or depressed any longer than we desire, for if we but pull out our promise we can return right back to the path, it doesn't ruin us to fall, or make mistake.

We can get back up, God can and will redeem your wasted time, money, energy, life!

 He can do amazing things, He specialized in restoration. But you can't just despair, you are injuring yourself and making yourself more feeble once you continue. Christ is always reaching out to lift you out of the water. But you have the key to leave despair and your doubts of success behind.

When we fall, we can get right back up, and God will take care of our failure, He will take our losses onto Himself and free us from the troubles.

Your hard work and growth DOES NOT disappear when you fall.

Get up, your mind is becoming more like Christ's, your failure does not undo it all.

We can learn, we can write down and pray about the steps we took to giving in, and watchfully use them as beacons of warning for the next time. Satan's traps don't have to succeed, if we are watchful and hold the hand of God when we begin the day, we need not stumble.

 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9

Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out,

“Lord, save me!”

 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.

“You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”

Mathew 14:29

So I must ask... Why do we doubt?

Why do I doubt? Has Jesus been unfaithful?

No.

"Tell Jesus your wants in the sincerity of your soul. You are not required to hold a long controversy with, or preach a sermon to, God, but with a heart of sorrow for your sins, say,

“Save me, Lord, or I perish.”

There is hope for such souls.

They will seek, they will ask, they will knock, and they will find.

When Jesus has taken away the burden of sin that is crushing the soul, you will experience the blessedness of the peace of Christ."

Our Father Cares, p. 99.

The "digital cocaine"

This is going to be spur of the moment and hard to read, but I'm tired and I hope it makes sense. Its kind of a rant. But I felt a need to do it right now, so if it speaks to you, its not me that really said it.

One of the reasons I have not been on the internet is because I am trying to kick the digital cocaine.

The hardcore drugs that ruins peoples lives aren't found on the streets, they are found in the phone in your pocket, they are on the tablet or computer on the table.

The internet is a great way to connect, but it has an even greater power to ruin your usefulness and you productivity.

A few years back I got off Facebook
-reasons why

I got of instragram
-selfish gratification
-following on girls i liked
-each hit or I would wait for new posts
-made me disatisfied with life

YouTube-ive been fighting still
-im more determined than ever to not let it ruin me
-so so much time, even doing educational things wasn't enough, the focal was still virtual
-I still couldv'e spent that time in hours of prayer, or study, or working on my family or friend relationships
-instead i was again searching and scrolling till I got my next hit

Pinterest/snapchat/ect.

-I keep mentioning these "hits" but these hits are everywhere, that what the internet companies use to draw you, or "hook" you become like a junky

-I have had an experience with porn addiction, and the same scrolling till i was satisfied, the same feeling I get from these websites reminds me exactly of what it feels like when I mindlessly scroll and surf through pinterest pictures, or facebook/instagram profiles, or youtube videos. Always that next hit, and I always wondered why I was weaker against resisting porn urges after I was on social media, or youtube, its because the same base animal passion that leads me to indulge in sin is activated by this indulgence and over stimulation/

 Social media is a stimulant, just like caffeine, to get you hooked, gives you pockets of highs, and leaves you yearning, for more, and we come back for more. The modern cocaine, the modern caffeine is the on the internet, we find ourselves craving the next post from a certain someone or the next video from that channel, or a new "dream" idea to pin to our board... its all a fake life, we aren't doing the things on the videos, no one looks as good as they do online, we know deep down its just castle building to think we will make money to afford traveling the world, so why do we keep fantasizing, why do we feed our carnality?

Our desire is perverted. We were designed for greater things. Go read Patriarchs and Prophets, the chapter "School of the Prophets", and chew on it.

The devil has his "School of the World" online, and we have entered in our emails.

We escape to this virtual world before we escape to the arms of our Savior.

We get spare time and we don't pray, we pull out our phone.

Tell me I am wrong. We love the world far to much, and we love these idols to much to change.

God has big plans for you, you just need to stop wasting your time and go to Jesus, He is waiting.

Now go read that chapter. Then pray and by His grace reform. Then press on.