When there is no issue!

When there is no issue!

Many have found themselves in a situation similar to a labyrinth, looking for an exit. This could be in their spiritual life, a situation at the work place, in their home, …in a situation like this, it is easy to find himself confused in his spirit because you don’t know where to go. One may feel as if he is in jail. The fear never to exit the labyrinth seizes you and you become captive. Some people in such a situation do not try to find how they did to find themselves in the labyrinth in order to know how to exit, they rather start as soon as possible to find the exit. Others become easily tired, cry unto their fate, and do not make any kind of effort except the effort to wait patiently their death. Looking a way of exit is an important alternative that has to be praised, but it is not the right way because you cannot exit a place when you don’t know how you did to come in. And cry unto your fate is nothing less than cowardice.

In general, we find ourselves in a labyrinth when there is something wrong in our relationship with God, or when we rip the fruits of a bad seed we sow in our lives without making repentance and bearing the consequences of our sin. I am saying that because the Word of God says in Romans 10: 11  “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame”

If someone starts everything in his life with God, plans and builds everything with God, there is no reason for God to put him in a labyrinth because God is Faithful to His word.

Trying to exit the labyrinth without knowing how you got into may be successful in the sense that you can really exit it, but do not deceive yourself; if you exit it, you will come into another labyrinth which will be wider and more complicated than the first one and your situation will be worst.

It happens sometimes that when we are looking for an exit, God who loves us so much, and knows that we will not be able to face the worst situation of a wider and more complicated labyrinth, prevent us from moving out of the labyrinth. He does everything to complicate the exit, so that all our efforts to come out will be in vain. He can even prevent men to help us in this situation and all these with one intention which is to catch our attention, so that we can turn ourselves to Him, look for His face, listen to His voice in order to let His Word transform our mind, transform our habits and open our eyes over the reasons why we find ourselves in the labyrinth. It is at this moment and only at this moment that we will know how to find the way out, and we will know how to escape a wider and more complicated labyrinth.

As for the one who prefer to cry unto his fate, I invite him to read this article “You are not a victim”

When we do not want to seek the face of God in order to understand what brought you into the labyrinth, it may happen a situation which can happen to everyone; that is a situation where even those that God has nothing reproach may find themselves. For this kind of persons, God may be willing to form a new character. The situation I am talking about is a situation where you find yourself between four walls where the issues become locked. And as if it was not sufficient, the doors which were formerly locked become walls and you find yourself in a position where you cannot come in, nor come out. No one can help you; you are here alone with your God, who is sited on His throne, is observing you and is waiting that you express the fact that you need Him, and that you let him take care of the situation; on the other sides, there is the devil who is waiting that you lay your life forever in his hand on order to be eternally lost as he is. You will probably tell me that this situation is terrible, but allow me to tell you that you can still live in it because very soon you will discover a worst situation: which is to see the four walls moving, approaching you as if you are going to be crushed by them. I will say here that this situation is really unpleasant and horrible. It is a situation where the coolest man will do nothing else that to panic and ask the question to know what to do, and how to do. In this situation, there is no sleep, no peace, no laugh, and no life. It is really hell on earth. You may have the impression that you are seeing you life disappearing in live.

Because I have experienced this kind of situation many times before, I know that it is true that the walls are moving and approaching as if I am going to be crashed by them, but it is an illusion to think that I will really be crashed by them because God will never allow it if our heart is clean before Him. That is if our consciousness testifies that we have nothing to reproach to ourselves before God and before men. It is even written in Psalm 91: 12 they will lift you up in their hands,
       so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

It is an illusion to believe that your debts will kill you even if the bills are exorbitant and your bank account is under a minus.

It is an illusion to believe that gossips on your account will prevent you to move forward and achieve your objectives because of the bad reputation that the gossips will generate.

It is an illusion to believe that you will never achieve what the Lord is expecting from you because some men who look more powerful than you are trying to prevent you to make it.

It is an illusion to believe that there is no reason to live because you think that you have lost everything.

Believe me, everything is just illusions.

Every time that I went into this kind of situation, I have understood that no matter what happen, issues which are locked will finally be opened with supplementary issues. After realizing that the issues finally opened themselves, I asked the question to know what I am gaining on turning up and down because I am scared, anxious, … when the walls approached me as if I am going to be crushed by them. It really does not help me to do that because I am spending energy for nothing important. I have understood in fact that what the Lord is waiting for me is to be calm, seek His face through His Word, in order to gain some energy; as it is written in Isaiah 30: 15-16 “15 This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:
       "In repentance and rest is your salvation,
       in quietness and trust is your strength,
       but you would have none of it.

 16 You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.'
       Therefore you will flee!
       You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.'
       Therefore your pursuers will be swift!”

In fact, those moments are created to call you for a spiritual refresh. This spiritual refresh is important because it will allow you to close the breach that you have opened to the devil in a moment of your life (for those who did), it enables you to fortify your spirit and prepare yourself to beat the devil who is going to do you a great harm at the moment that you are going to move out from this four walls in which you find yourself. It also enables you to learn to recognize God’s voice and to know the way God wants you to take in order to please Him.

Indeed, during the moment where you are locked in the four walls which are approaching you, you will need to know which way to take when the supplementary issues will be opened.  This is because among the supplementary issues that will be opened some will come from the enemy, and in general there are the firsts, while only one door is from God. And for all Christians who want to please God, it is the door opened by God that has to be taken. However, be assured that if during the moment that the walls were approaching you as if there were going to crush you, you did not spend a quality time with God, it will be easy for you to take the wrong door because you are under fear and the only thing you want at this moment is to come out of there at all costs, but not come out when and how God wants you to come out. It is clear that take the issue opened by the devil means take a fatal issue. It is then that you can better understand Isaiah 30: 15-16 “15 This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:
       "In repentance and rest is your salvation,
       in quietness and trust is your strength,
       but you would have none of it.

 16 You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.'
       Therefore you will flee!
       You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.'
       Therefore your pursuers will be swift!”

So, no matter difficult the situation in which you find yourself may be, if you have the impression that the doors are closing, and you find yourself in the middle of four walls which approach you as if they are going to crush you, please have the humility, even if you have the impression that you have nothing to reproach to yourself, to approach God and ask Him if there is something to change in your Christian life style, repent also in front of God and in front of men, if He shows you something. Search God’s face to know how to deal with the situation, learn to listen to the Sweet voice of the Holy Spirit so that He may lead you to do God’s Will in your life.

In the peace and love of Christ,

Eugenie of Jesus.