Hey guys welcome back on Consistency….
Have many of you watched Peter Pan when they were kids? I think we all did right? The story of the young man who brought some children to his imaginary world(NeverLand) where everything was supposed to be joy and happiness. A kind of place where we never grew up and were never supposed to be confronted with the problems of adult life.

If you had the choice, wouldn’t you also want to live in this imaginary world far from bills, exams, struggles, betrayals? A world where everything is fine where we are far from our real problems.

Thinking about it I realized something… you know the devil’s goal in our difficulties is not necessarily to hurt us, to make us cry, to stress us with adversities but rather to distract us and to move us away from what is really important…
Think about it, what happens most of the time when we are hurt, we remain fixed on our pain, we dwell on the past, we lament, we judge ourselves, ask ourselves endless questions until a wall bristles around us, fortresses that make us see only what we have in front of us, and limit our field of thought to the limits of the fort that has been erected.
Most often we talk about distraction when it comes to pleasant things but have you ever thought about the fact that even your adversities can represent a distraction for you, your future and your walk with Christ?

Am I saying that we do not have the right to feel negative emotions such as stress, pain etc? No of course but what happens when we go through these situations? Do they build fortresses in our minds that prevent us from seeing beyond the problem?
So many times it happened to me to focus myself on a situation so futile that I could not even resolve by simply thinking about it, wasting hours and days lamenting to the point of not being able to do anything productive, and after a while when I think back I wonder how it could have monopolized my mind so much? So on everything I could sit down and think about it was the only thing that bothered me? Distraction!!! This problem was my Peter Pan world in this context.
I hope that until now you are following me well.
For others their Peter Pan world can be difficulties that prevent them from seeing the good things that are around them. Paradoxical isn’t it? You complain so much about what you don’t have and would like to have that you don’t see what is already there. Distraction!!!! I’ll tell you a secret, come closer, it stays between us: the secret of lamentations is thanksgiving. Try it and you’ll see. For others, their NeverLand is compensation mechanisms that they develop to avoid thinking about what is happening to them: whether it’s sex, alcohol, drugs, imagining false scenarios in their head all day long, etc. We all have ways of escaping reality, for better or for worse.

But what am I getting at? I don’t know what you are going through but I just want to tell you to put your eyes on Jesus, don’t allow your difficulties or the enemy to make you loose focus, that’s his real goal in your life. The moment you focus on your adversities you will enter only in a vicious circle that only brings lamentation. So I know: that heartbreak hurts you, that poverty is hanging on you with a power bank; it doesn’t want to finish, that what your friend did to you is wrong, that you are scared of exams coming. I know, I know it is not easy. People are already telling you that this new year is starting with WTF, so you believe it will be bad for you.

Oga/ma? Cast your burden unto Jesus, Him alone is able to give you His shalom that surpasses all understanding that will guard your mind in Him. Let your trial be an opportunity to run to God to stay in the secret place and not leave. Let Jesus carry you if you can’t walk anymore… That’s the beauty of Christianity, we are no more alone. We don’t fight anymore on our own.

Exodus 14:13 Then Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid! Take your stand [be firm and confident and undismayed] and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today; for those Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see again.

As He promised to be in the fire with you, walk in it with Him, with fear but with Faith. Let Jesus be the Peter Pan that will lead you to a world where you have unconditional peace in the trials.

By the way, thank you for reading and sharing, I see the statistics and I am grateful. I know I haven’t been consistent as before not posting every Friday as I used to do but may God continue to strengthen me. So if next Friday you don’t see my articles and you have my number come fight me. If you don’t just comment on any article and I will see it.

God loves you.