Grab Another Gear and Go: Triumph Over Life’s Challenges

Grab Another Gear and Go

            In Matthew 11:12, we read, “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” For a long time, I did not understand this verse. I would read it, scratch my head, and ask God, “What in the world are you talking about?”  The Bible says, “Ask and you will receive,” so one day while driving, He showed me what this verse meant.

Time to Grab Another Gear

             I was driving up the road in my little pickup when I met a truck pulling an open-sided trailer hauling 10 or 12 cars. A forceful turbulence was created as the air went over, under, and around these cars.  As I encountered this turbulent air, it was like a violent force that almost stopped my pickup. To continue on my way, I had to become more forceful than this wall of invisible air. So, I had to grab another gear, step on the gas, and power through the violence. 

            This is the lesson I learned. The Kingdom of Heaven and God’s children have always faced violent attacks from Satanic forces. These attacks have and will increase as the Great Day of the Lord draws nearer. God’s people must not be fooled by those who tell us we should be tolerant and compromising. Like David, we must fill our pockets with stones, and like Jesus, we must prepare to turn some tables over.

            Jesus told us in this world we would face turbulence. But we need not be afraid, He has overcome the world. Satan will continue to attack us with violence and force. But with God, we will gain the victory and He will trample down the enemy. So, when the enemy comes at us with a wall of turbulence and trouble, don’t let it slow you down. Lean into it, grab another gear, step on the gas, and go.

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.”

Philippians 3:12-16 NKJV

https://bible.com/bible/114/php.3.12-16.NKJV

Douglas & Deborah Huff

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