Face Your Demons

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Have ever felt pressured to do something you would not normally do? It is the Christian perspective, to say there are some really bad influences and some really good ones. So much of our earthly existence is filled with resisting some and assenting to others. Doing so forms our dispositions and thus who we become. Demons do not fight fair and every chance they find to tear us down, cast doubt upon us, and make us imagine others dislike us as we get closer to God, they will. As we continue along the Way, if we search for healing in anything other than God, we lose Him and are letting those demons push us. It is essential to continue along the path to face what scares us most away from vulnerability with God. He alone can heal our pains, and He alone can face our demons. Habitual sins hold us down but what holds us to them.

These influences of the enemy consisting of everything from spending time with those that don’t believe in morality or don’t care about it, wounds in our lives that our enemies don’t let us forget, and the culture of vanity and indulgence. These things that draw our corrupted nature like a magnet from the things of Hod must be resisted with the help of God’s grace lest they steal our heart. As Christians, we must stare them in the face and tell them “You Lose!” and surrender to the Divine Love which wills our good and even their worst serves our good(Romans 8:28). It is also important to remember what we mean by "the enemy", for a Christian, an enemy is any dynamic that doesn’t push us in the direction of God and thus does not will our ultimate good. There are things we have the power to make them things that lead us to God. The enemies that are people can only be self-proclaimed enemies since Christians are here to draw and welcome those who are open to Christ independent of what they have done or the qualities they have.


In conclusion, Christ does not spare us from our trials because it is in them that we find ourselves United to God, closer than when we are comfortable. Indeed, everything can and should lead us to God. If we engage with circumstances, people, other created things, etc. in such a way that they do not lead us to God this is a form of idolatry since these things quickly try to act in place of God. Rather, even the spiritual persecution we face from the enemies that dwell in our deepest wounds trying to undermine our self-worth must be resisted and it must be known that they are liars who don’t care. Never give in to the forces that push you from God because they do in fact hate everything about you or at least would like to use you as means to an end apathetic to your dignity. Fear should govern us. When we think we have given our all, we must think again since we are prone to think we have done so at about 40%. If we are going through hell, why should we stop, turn back, hide from the fact, or pretend we aren't there, indeed we must keep going until it is over. Problems are inevitable therefore they must be confronted in their ugly face with purity, fortitude, and (where it involves other humans and God) love. Lean into the struggles and accept them as the Way.

“These wounds just won’t heal,
The pain is just to real.”
God give me the strength,
To stand firm against these pangs.

My dignity doesn’t consist of what is about me,
Help me to fight the force which assail me.
All I want is You my God
But it is because this they try to obscure the Way I trod

God grant me the grace to move in spite of my enemies
Don’t allow to give them surrender as they please
What they whisper is agony,
but only You My Love, I see.
I am a created entity, not a person.

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