Thirty-nine years, six months, twelve days, twelve hours, ten minutes, sixty-seven seconds. With each grasp, you find the rope thinning, and you realize the place you've come to is frayed, the strands fine hairs. Dreaming long gave way to Surviving, and you've since worn hope to tatters. Your grip is locked, you cannot go forward, you will eventually fall. You cannot save yourself, there is no other to rescue you.
Hands frozen, breathing shallow, eyes glazed and staring beyond the fray; a word trickles off your lips, down the corners of your mouth, ...oh, God, make me strong....
Be Strong, says a voice, pragmatic and thoughtful. Be Strong -- in the Lord, in the power of His might.
Do you want your grasp to hold and the strength to carry on? If you have accepted Christ's sacrifice as the punishment you should have received from God for your sins, then you have been given peace with God and confident access to the might that raised Christ, the Righteous One, from the grave and put all things under His feet and all power into His hand. Take up and use what has been given you. The strength to carry on comes only by advancing in the accurate use of truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, and the Spirit -- moment by moment, hand over hand. One caveat: these tools must grow on you, from the inside out and is only accomplished through the personal mentorship of Christ Himself.
This may not lead you where you thought you were going. But it is the only option to live. Let's see where it will take you....
And, by the way, you will not fall, for you are in His hand.
(Ephesians 6:10-18, Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 2:13-18, John 15:4-11, John 10:29)
