Fortification

There is a walled city, a fortress.
In this fortress lives the High King.
This High King loves His people and does everything He can to keep his people safe from the enemy without. But for some strange reason His people keep leaving the gates to the city open, or sometimes they don’t keep up their part of the wall and it falls into disrepair.
The King longs to see all of His people safe, but His people just keep letting the enemy in.
The King tells them what to do, how to close the gates, how to keep up the walls, in fact He gives them a whole instruction manual on how it is done, but still the enemy keeps getting in.
Why is this?
Maybe it is because the people don’t realize the danger they are in until it is too late. They don’t even realize that they are leaving the gates open and the walls in disrepair, that they are either letting happen or causing the “breaches”. Then when the enemy slips in through the cracks and wrecks havoc on their lives the people turn to the King and say “How could you let this happen? You are supposed to be our protector!”
The King looks out at His people with sorrow and says “How can I protect those who won’t be protected? Who won’t even close the doors to the enemy?”
I don’t know about you, but this hits a little close to home for me.
I don’t know how many times I have let Satan squeeze through the door or the cracks in the walls, without ever realizing it.
What causes these “breaches”?
Sin, unforgiveness, letting in or pondering things that are not of God, ect.
Essentially, us feeding the flesh and listening and buying the lies of Satan.
What combats these lies and fills in the breaches? Jesus Christ.
Through the power and truth of His Word. Through His Spirit indwelling and enabling us to see these breaches for what they truly are. Through the realization of knowing what we have and what we need and wrestling until the braking of day for the fulfillment of that need.
By gaining a true understanding for what a breach is we can began to see the things of God and the things that He wants to accomplish through us.
God does not want us to be bandied-about by the enemy.
There is a time to lay down one’s life, but even then we are not laying it down before the enemy, but before God Almighty. For His Kingdom and His glory.
So how do we tell when something is from Satan and not form God, and therefore a breach?
Well these are some of the things that we know are from the enemy and we need to stand against:
Fear, Anxiety, Depression, Guilt, Confusion, Insecurity, Family Problems, Spiritual Defeat…
These are thing that we know are not form God. Therefore we resist them. We say “NO” to the lies the enemy tries to pass off as truth.
We are not to fall under any of these things. That is not how the triumphant Christian life works.
We submit ourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee. (Jam 4:27)
God has a plan for our lives and I believe He wants to work this fortification in us so that we can turn and help others with the same vulnerabilities as we had.
Jesus has a perfect plan. Let’s seek and find Him.