"Put it to Rest"

"He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days." (Psalms 102:23)
Of all the issues we might have in this life, being mortal is really the least of them that gets in the way of our salvation. Honestly, it is because of our weakness that God has made it so easy! You think that it's the opposite? That somehow you are made stronger and less dependent upon God once you get saved? Sorry to say this, but you are more and more dependent upon God the deeper you get into this journey; the further you go, the more you need Him to carry you through. We keep hoping for the day when it will all be easy, thinking that our days of being a Christian somehow make us stronger and stronger the longer we remain; when in reality, the best that we can hope for is that we have gained some wisdom, because the more we rely on the victories we have had to guide us, the weaker we become. You need to study your Bible, if that's what you think! 'Oh, I have crossed this bridge before, I have this one in the bag.' Oh, really? God does not like to have His glory taken away, so you need to realize something about the battle: "The battle belongs to the LORD!" If the battle is going to be easy, then it will be easy because God is fighting the battle for you. Does that mean that we do nothing? No way! We pray, we move, we do whatever it is that God says to do; but whatever we do, we do it by trusting and waiting on the Lord to guide us; especially when it comes to overcoming the sin that seems to be the hardest to overcome. What ever that might be for you, you will not defeat that thing unless it is given over to God. That's is one of our biggest issues with the sins that we like, we do not give them over completely to God. We might give Him some of it, like maybe the parts that seem obvious and out in the open; but we need to give Him all of it, especially the parts we think that we can keep to our selves. Here is the thing I believe that God is saying: that the further we get into this relationship with God, the more of us we need to give Him. The more of us that we give Him, the weaker we become in the flesh; after all, it is the flesh that we are constantly fighting, so it is our flesh that needs to be weakened. As for the shortening of days, we are to keep our eyes upon the prize, not upon the needs and desires of the flesh. The longer we live, the shorter the distance to the prize. That way the desires of the flesh will seem less and less important...
"What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their evil deeds in the dark! "The LORD can't see us," they say. "He doesn't know what's going on!" How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say to the one who made it, "He didn't make me"? Does the jar ever say, "The potter who made me is stupid"? Soon -and it will not be long -the forests of Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will yield bountiful crops." (Isaiah 29:15-17) NLT