Day 85 - How we lose it

God has brought us up by Grace and not because we deserve it, as we clearly don't. He clearly does that because of love and understanding how hard it is to be a human.
Inside all of us there is potential to be a thief, a murder, an adulterer, someone full of envy, lust, addictions, evil words and thoughts, there is so much potential to become a complete disaster in each one of us, and that's the truth. We are all subject to mistakes, we are all subject to sin. What to do then?
That's what Jesus is for, through Him, those burdens become lighter and the potential of sin is pushed back by the Holy Spirit and the Holy Word.

How do we lose it then? What happens to Christians all around the world? Why do so many Christians get messed up? How do we go to church one day and the other we can fall apart?

I believe this verse helps to understand :

"He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever." John 12:25

That's it. When living with Jesus we have our lives transformed by His power and start to receive all these great blessings from Heaven. But are we prepared to receive so many gifts? Is a 3 year old child prepared to receive a big box of chocolate? Is a teenage prepared to handle one million dollars? Not even an adult is!

We pray for things and of course God gives them to us according to His will, but we forget to pray for Him to prepare our hands and minds to receive. And that's how we lose it all, we begin to love our lives, we begin to have too much fun with God's gifts and forget Him, forget we are not from here and this is just a quick go through. How hard that is, to lay our lives completely down at His feet and let Him do whatever He wants with it, without complaining when He takes things and without holding on to the things He gives us.

We are e are supposed to be humble and have humility in our hearts, but yes earthly life sometimes is too good, and we can't handle it.

God I pray you will prepare us, we were not even prepared to receive this beautiful planet You gave us, we destroyed it. We took it all for granted and we keep doing it with everything day after day. Thanks for forgiving us Lord. Amen.