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I grew up my entire life always being enriched with wondrous virtues and instruction. Things like:<\/p>\n
“Trust in the Lord and He will never fail you”<\/p>\n
“You need to be saved in order to make Heaven your home”<\/p>\n
“Ask Jesus to forgive you for your sins”<\/p>\n
“Hold on through the storm and God will not leave you”<\/p>\n
“When no one else will help encourage yourself”<\/p>\n
I believed those words\u00a0from all of those whom spoke these to me that they meant well and spoke it from a good place in their heart. In fact, I have even clung to the encouragement and listened to the instruction that I was told. However I cannot help but feel like that in the day I live in that something feels different than before. The many voices that I use to hear deliver such phrases are declining and I find myself looking inside my soul for strength now more than ever. It made me think, “Is this the way it’s supposed to be? Is it like riding a bike and once you’re off you no longer need that encouragement and kind push?”<\/p>\n
At first I thought, “Yeah that’s got to be it. I’m just not praying and working hard enough or I would obviously see what I’ve been told my whole life”. And then after months and months of more decline (almost to silence) I then stood exhausted from all the effort and began to question myself in my feverish pursuit of keeping the bar that I had been told to hold my whole life up completely on my own. Thanks be to God somehow I came through what would have probably broke others down to loneliness and depression. When my pride wanted me to just write everyone off that had seemingly forsaken me the spirit of the Lord quickened me and began to teach me about something I had never realized before.<\/p>\n
My revelation was simply this: we all need a spotter from time to time, but sometimes we are to be the spotter when others cannot carry their own load. It put me in the mind of this imagery:<\/p>\n