The Battle Belongs To The Lord // Do Not Be Afraid, Part 2

<p>Most times, we end up fighting our own battles. But sometimes, the opposition is just – well, it’s overwhelming. Then what?  Well that’s when we can discover that the battle, belongs to the Lord.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>I Can Do Anything I Want</strong></span></h3> <p>In this day and age one of the things that they teach us is to be self reliant. To have confidence in our own abilities.</p> <p>You can do anything you set your mind to they tell us. You can make it, it’s all up to you.</p> <p>That’s ok to a point I guess. It’s a good thing to have some confidence in who we are that God made us to be. But you can take this idea too far and it will bring you undone. The positive turns into a terrible negative. See what happens, when the situation we’re in or the circumstances that we’re facing are so far beyond our ability to deal with them, that any idea of self reliance is completely ridiculous.</p> <p>What happens when the problem confronting us requires skills and abilities that we don’t have. What happens when the career we’ve chosen just doesn’t fit who we are?</p> <p>What happens when the one we love, our wife or our husband or one of our children is going through some tough times. Something that as much as we love them, we can’t seem to be able to help them through. An illness, a depression, a crisis. And nothing we can say or nothing we can do seems to make any difference.</p> <p>Well, then what? What happens when a tsunami hits our lives? What do we do when the enemy that gathers around us completely outnumbers and outguns us? Come on. Then what do we do?</p> <p>And this isn’t some theoretical exercise. This is life. It’s my life and it’s your life. Because this happens. It’s real. There are times in our lives when the enemy whoever or whatever that is, when the enemy is so much bigger than our ability to survive.</p> <p>It happens in families. It happens in work places. And it happens in our hearts. When sickness hits for no good reason. When a loved one is taken in their