Wrestling old stuff

One of the tactics of the enemy is to get you wrestling old stuff. The lies come in subtle and slow, catching you off-guard, building brick-upon-brick, familiar and yet veiled. So well layered that you think it is your stuff and you begin to wrestle with it. The wrestling though is not so much with God, like Jacob wrestled (that wrestling is good), but with cobwebs. The more you wrestle with cobwebs the more entangled you become.

But the moment you recognise that that is an area, that you by God’s grace already have victory in, or the moment that you realise that this is not your issue or “stuff”, the cobwebs dissipate and you breathe the fresh air of hope.

You and God have a history. There are battles He has given you grace to fight in the past and victories that you have won. Don’t lose your victory to a disguised lie now. If it looks familiar inspect the lie. If its a lie you have already dealt with simply shrug it off because it is not your stuff.

Remember, we don’t lower our theology to the level of our experience, but we raise the level of our experience to the high water mark of the truth of WHO GOD IS.