We have already won the battle

Well, I have recently been told this verse that I have not heard in a long time but it's one that hold so much truth to it and it is 1 John 4:4 "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." It is easy to be frightened by the wickedness we see all around us and to be overwhelmed by the problems we face. Evil is obviously much stronger than we are. John assures us, however, that God is stronger. He will conquer all evil- and his Spirit and his Word live in our heart!!! That's all there is to it, if we accept Jesus Christ into our lives then we have won the battle against evil, now I'm in no way saying that because we have Christ in our lives that we won't face any trouble or evil since the opposite will happen since Satan hates it when God gains another follower and he looses the battle against Christ. You see he is trying to take the followers of Jesus and make them follow him and do as he wants us to do but that is when we need Christ the most. Satan doesn't bother those who don't have Christ in there lives as much as Christians since he already has them in his grasp but it's us that he wants and will try to do everything to take control of us and make us leave Christ and go our separate ways.

I know how this can be since I have faced it personally in various manners and it was never fun to be away from Christ. I pushed myself away from him but he always had a way of finding me and then this all reminds me of a poem. Sometimes we feel so distant from God and feel as if he doesn't care just like in the poem "footprints in the sand" the guy saw that when he was in his deepest times of his life that there was only one set of footprints in the sand and questions God on why, when he needed him the most that he abandoned him but God replied and said "child, my dear child I would never forsake or leave you for when you only saw one set of footprints it was then that I was carrying you."

You see we may be living a life just like the guy was and felt like God had left us and abandoned us but the truth is once we accept him into our lives then he will always be with us even when we try to leave him, he will find us again. He wants to be there for us and he wants to be the one we turn to in our darkest hours and then he will carry us. He doesn't like to see us suffer but things have to happen in order to make us more powerful and to realize that God is the most powerful God and that when we have him in our lives then we have already won the battle against Evil since they didn't overpower us and capture us because of the large amount of love that Jesus Christ has for each and everyone of us.

Just remember that when you are in your darkest moment that you are not alone since God is carrying you and will help you if you allow him to so just remember the poem "footprints in the sand" and trust in the Lord with all your heart and watch him do his work through you.