When we’re depressed and think there’s no point in trying, we need to just DO IT ANYWAY. A body at rest tends to stay at rest and a body in motion tends to stay in motion. That’s why depression/demoralization is a vicious circle. You don’t feel like doing anything so you don’t do anything so you don’t feel like doing anything...
Faith is believing in what is unseen at the time. Farmers (like my dad and brothers) live by faith every day of their lives. Those dead seeds and cold ground make it seem a waste of time to get out of the warm house and go into the muddy mess, and the seeds if they do come up may get hailed on, may be killed by draught, may cost too much to harvest because of EPA rules and taxes, etc.... It would be very easy to say nothing will ever come of all the work. The Bible says we will see a harvest - if we don’t give up.
None of us FEELS like our efforts will be successful. Obama and his thugs and minions are very, very good at one thing: killing, stealing, and destroying, all to make us give up. It is the devil’s work, after all. We have been targeted just as surely as if a tazer was used on us to stop us. It is no wonder we all feel this way.
But if we just keep putting one foot in front of another, eventually our feelings will catch up to our faith. In “Princess Bride” Inigo Montoya thinks he’s dying, stabbed in the gut by Count Rugen. When Rugen calls him pathetic and tries to give him the fatal stab, Inigo instinctively puts out his sword to stop it. No energy, just sheer instinct. And it repeats. But as he brandishes his sword Inigo begins to forget his wound, his tiredness, and his failure - and remembers what he was living the last decades of his life for.
The chances of Lerner actually being placed in jail are as great as our faithfulness in putting one foot in front of another and planting seeds when the dirt is cold. It is not Lerner who is on trial. It is not Obama. It is we who are on trial. God is finding out what we are made of. This country is ours for the taking - if we will. If we won’t, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Not the clueless people with their EBT cards, because they don’t know any better. Us.
If we step out in faith, God will take us the rest of the way we need to go. I’ve already seen it happen. And just today I saw another answer to a very specific prayer I prayed, pleading for help. There is no way anybody can convince me that we are alone in this battle. I’ve seen far too much of God’s amazing power and wisdom to believe that for a second - except when I’m tired and forget to look up.
Let’s all look up, and keep putting one foot in front of the other, ESPECIALLY when we think it will get us nowhere.
Bravo. Many of your comments should be on your blog. Copy and save them, edit if need be.