An Unexpected Journey

Every, Single. One.  Of the blogs that my friends have shared about the lies they believed has spoken to me!  I hope they have touched you, too!  I think a big piece of this is recognizing another very important deception that the enemy whispers to each of us.  It is that we are alone.  He wants you to believe that no one else is experiencing the struggle you face- that you are the only one who has made those mistakes or even those dumb decisions.  The enemy wants you to hide.  To keep your pain in the darkness.  He knows if you are isolated, there is much less chance that the truth of the Word and the light will find you there. Way back at the beginning when the first woman, Eve, listened to the lies of the enemy and disobeyed what God told her, she felt shame.  And the need to hide.  The bible says she and her husband hid from God.  There were consequences for their choices.  And they had broken trust with the One who loved them and created them.  It hurts when we disappoint