Standing Against

Today was pretty amazing, I am trying to enact some of the things which I said yesterday but I know it will not be an overnight transformation. God is at work and I am going to let him work. The night has brought a new thunder and that is literally as well as figuratively. We have had severe storms here all night and we are under a Tornado Watch Box until 1 in the morning. I am not sure what to think since this is my first major Kansas storm but I know that my God will protect me and I know that should something happen, he is my savior and I am saved by his blood and his grace so i have nothing to worry about. On the other hand, I read something in the Bible that is encouraging and has given me a new outlook on what I said last night. It is how to surpass that struggle and become stronger than that which I do which I would not do. God works in ways we may never understand but we know that it is awesome when he speaks to us even when we are not sure what to be looking for. He just up and puts it in our face sometimes while other times he might be more subtle. Either way, he will show us the way and he will be there to help us in our time of need and searching. We are built up by what we learn in him and he is our source for all things that are good. People attribute good fortune to luck or to chance but really it is God providing because everything is his. Most people just do not recognize that God gives and takes and he is responsible for the tough times we face because he is trying to teach us something and he is responsible for the good things because he loves us and never will forsake us. He is that awesome and powerful that he can do so much in one day and he takes care of all things.

Pretty much the inner struggle that I face is similar to a place in which Ezekiel was told to prophesy against. God told Ezekiel what to say to the city to let them know that they would not stand. In the same way, I need to force the human nature I live in me to be put under because I will not let it stand in me any longer. The text is found in Ezekiel 35:1-7 and it states, "The word of the Lord came to me: Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, prophesy against it and say, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Mount Seir and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste. I will turn your towns ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord. Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax, therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed." Pretty much I believe God is telling us that we need to speak out against that which turns us over to sin and ultimately death. God is going to make that part of us a desolate area and no one will know that it exists any longer because it will be dead and will no longer be evident. God does not want the nature that turns us over into the hands of Satan to flourish and we need to let it know that God is stronger and will overcome anything that stands against him. We are no longer slaves to sin and we need to understand that. We do not avoid sin because we are just trying to get to heaven, but we avoid sin because it is detrimental to who we are and it is the primary cause of death. Understand that God will help you overcome the inner struggles that you face and there is nothing that can take that away.

I am continuing to pray for all of you and I hope that you continue to pray for me. God has done amazing things and is showing me new things everyday. I am excited and know that God is going to continue to work on this campus through the students on this campus. I hope you all had a great day.

God Bless,

Joseph Robinson