You ever read a book and you read the first chapter and think to yourself, "Man this could take forever", or maybe even "Well here we go" not knowing how it will end?  That is the same way we are with our lives but in Christ it is totally different because in Christ we know the end and in the end we win.  Those of us who are faithful we win and for me I do not look to justify any kind of sin I may have done or may be or have been packing because with this walk the end don't justify the means all the time.

Some people get that come as you are stay as you are attitude, they come and repent and really cry out and when they leave they want to stay the same.  Others do not they come as they are and they fight but it seems like its uphill but you know what?  Those kinds of people who fight are saints in the making.  Jesus never promised it would be easy because he told them they'd suffer for his name sake.  I have to remind myself like today that Jesus already FINISHED IT!  Its done, over, its kaput and that makes you think if it's finished why am I still carrying these things?

Good question I encourage you to drop them just as I'm learning to drop mine and strive for a higher level in Christ Jesus.  He wants us up higher and he wants us to be given to his will and with good reason because only he can see down the scope of time and give you the grace you need to make it to the end.  Remember in Phillipians it says that "He who began a good work in you shall finish it to completion"... and that speaks volumes all on its own.  We get careless a lot of times and forget what JESUS took the penalty for our sins and because of that and because we bare his name he is faithful to forgive and to restore.  While we wake up every morning our eyes need to be on the prize of the only war to ever be finished before the end has arrived.

The devil is toothless he roars but he don't devour unless you are scared and you move.  You know why Lion's roar?  Its to make the prey move so that they can make sport of them and devour them and that's how the devil is.  Remember though IT IS FINISHED!!  With Christ filling you with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues as the spirit gives the utterance that build up in that heavenly language between you and God only confounds the enemy because he also knows the end but does not like the end all by himself.
He'll take you, me, pastors, deacons etc. whoever he can get his hands on to follow him to a war that is already lost.  You are on the winning side though my beautiful people of the most high God, and it is over, that loud cry from JESUS that shook the world was one of the most if not the most profound statement that people longed to hear.  "IT IS FINISHED!!"  You hopelessness is gone, your addictions are gone, your lack of esteem is gone, your bitterness is gone, its all under the blood and the war that the enemy triest to convince you is over is not over until JESUS sings with the voice of the archangel.  May you live a finished life in Christ Jesus and be at peace in him.  Jesus bless.