Walking with Christ is not an easy task; anyone who claims it is must know something I and many other followers of Christ do not. Christ himself said it would be hard to follow Him, He said it would be harder to follow Him than to not follow Him. I find that when I do not spend time with Christ daily, following Him gets that much harder because if I get farther away from Him I do not seek after what He wants, I seek after what I want and I become more selfish and all about me. This life is just a vapor, it will end, but Christ will endure forever. That is what I need to cling to; everything in this world does not matter. Jesus is what matters and if I do not cling to Him and His righteousness, then I will seek after things that are going to end up hurting me in the long run. Also, when I am not in communication with God daily, I am more susceptible to the enemy’s attacks, and he can hit me when I least expect it. Even when we don’t feel like meeting with God, that is most likely when we need to do it, when those excuses start popping into our head that is most likely the enemy trying to keep us further away from God.
I was reading a passage from “The Screwtape Letters,” by CS Lewis this weekend and it really illustrated how real the spiritual battle is, and we never really give it enough credit. While there is a good side working for us, (God), there is also a bad side working against us to keep us from God and His promises (Satan), and Satan wont just work on us when we are happy and living a “good life” but when we are depressed or things start going wrong, Satan sees that as his opportunity to go after us. That is why it is so important to fight back by being strong in the Lord and being in communication with Him daily. If not, that’s when we give the enemy room, and if you give the enemy an inch, do you really think he will take an inch or will he take a mile? We need to prepare for battle and really know the Word of God and the heart of the Lord. That way whenever the enemy feeds us lies, we can battle right back with truths.