What Side Of The Road Are You Living On?

When I walked the other day I took pictures of the fields on both sides of the road. One side was lush and green for that was the alfalfa growing again after being harvested just a few short weeks ago.

 The other side of the road contained the soy plants. Just a few short weeks ago they were lush and green. When you spanned the field with your eyes you saw a sea of lush green. Now, they are brown and dried out.

 If you allowed your natural eyes to judge by the color of each crop you would discount the brown, dried crop as dead and no good by appearance. In reality the the soy still needs to be harvested. Do not be deceived as the bible states that even the elect in the days in which we live in will be deceived. Have you ever been deceived? I sure have and unfortunately I must confess that a lot of the deception came forth from people that confessed to be church going Christians. You never believe that is possible until after the fact and you realize that you got duped so to speak. I think it tends to crush you a bit because you are first in a bit of shock that church people act anything but the likeness of Christ. Please know that I am not classifying all church people in this category. There are so many genuine and sincere Christians that more than enough make up for the other category.
Our natural eyes tend to see things without searching out the truth. It is best to see with your eyes not just in the natural but also seek to see it in the spiritual also. You may understand it if I say follow your gut instinct. Did you ever feel led to not go in a certain driving direction? You just knew to not take the route you normally take when you drove that day. That has happened to me several times. I followed Holy Spirit direction and I am so glad that I did, for just up ahead on the road was a serious accident that you were spared from being a part of. I am sure this same type of experience has happened to you if you stop and think about it briefly. Sometimes you let your guard down because you think or assume they are good because they are professing to be a Christian. WRONG!!! I am not saying to not let your guard down I am saying to proceed with caution. Take the time to view and see for yourself the fruit that is being produced in their lives. You will be able to rat a phony out, it may take some time but if you trust Holy Spirit over your natural ability He will root it out for you.
If you have placed before you a lemon and a lime and you grab the lime first and cut it you will discover there are no seeds inside of it. You may assume that the same thing will await you when you open up a lemon. By the outward appearance you can assume that they are similar by looking at their shape. There is a variation when it comes to color. One is yellow and one is green. There are similarities that just may lead you to believe that when you open up the lemon second there will be no seeds inside of it. Similar but not exact. That my friend, you can equate to true believers versus believers that only speak it for others to hear and do not live the life as a true believer. Give a person enough time and you will see their true fruit if you choose to take the blinders off of your eyes and see them for who they really are. Either they are a true believer or just a believer in name only and not living it in their life. Do not be deceived but build yourself up in Holy Spirit via reading the word of God and being sensitive to the leading of Holy Spirit.
The stronger you grow the stronger the enemy will set up situations and circumstances in your life to trip you up and send you on a detour path to slow you down with what you are called to do in your life. Once he has been found out you demand him to give back the lost time that has been stolen from you. He is under your feet if you know who you are in Christ Jesus. Stomp his false misleading out of your life and laugh at him as you do. Even though you grow stronger and stronger you may still need prayer from others to intercede on your behalf. I have found that it can become a tad bit hard for you to pray for yourself in the midst of a battle. That is when Holy Spirit will put you on the heart of another to pray and intercede for you on your behalf. I know this to be true in my own life. I have at times even cried out to Jesus and asked him to please place me upon the heart of another to lift me up in prayer. He is ever so faithful that I can feel the burden lift from me. Be open and prepared to this also, at times He will not allow you to reach someone to pray with you but for you call out to Him and He will lift the burden from you. Again, He is faithful. Do you have the faith to trust? Let me tell you that I have recently walked through some big time Trust/Faith things in my very own life. I experienced both and if you noticed how I worded it, I said that I walked through them. He does not ask you to stay there He will walk through it with you. Open your spiritual eyes to Jesus and let Him direct your steps. When He does He moves quickly and with clarity, power, wisdom, grace, and blessings. So pronounced that you will not be able to doubt that it was the hand of God moving you through. Be blessed and sharpen your walk with the Lord, read your bible and be ready to spring forth in action when the time is right to walk through. Do not fight it or run from it or even avoid it. Prolonged obedience will only bring forth prolonged blessings. What do you choose, blessing or to still keep walking through for the second, third or even fourth time? The choice is yours.