Author Darlene J. Conard

Sitting in the silence of my living- room my determination to win the battle over grogginess was set.  Sleepless nights of tossing turning and restlessness, no more: this has to be the last! “God what do You have to say?” I breathed out pushing against reminders of all that needed done.

I don’t understand! Yesterday I received a phone call from a friend that I hadn’t heard from for a year with encouragement. Not long after I finished praying, he called. I should be encouraged by great things that are happening in my life. God is opening doors. He’s moving in the lives of those around me, so, what is the problem? I reviewed everything that happened. A splinter isn’t always felt wedged beneath the skin. Sometimes redness or infection sets in before it’s discovered.

I remembered a conversation that turned negative last week. That’s when it started.

 Just a few words that implied as to what women should look like is all it took. Negative voices from the past began resurfacing.  

Several weeks ago, I watched a 3D animation short. It begins with a mother bird swooping across the land hunting then returning to her unhatched egg. Not far away a snake-like creature waited for the right moment to send distraction. The ugly creature released a small snake to lure momma away from her nest. She chased it for miles. Her nest was now unguarded. Her unborn baby’s life fell in the clinching fingers of fate. She looked back, realizing what had happened.  Fast and furious she confronted the creature running with what belonged to her. During the heated battle she got wounded by its poisonous fangs. All her strength and fight seemed until remembered what she was fighting for. With the little strength she had she dug her talons into the creature destroying it. The short clip drilled a message into my spirit.

Satan will use little things to entice us to unmount from God’s promise. Before we even realize what is going on, we are off chasing after an opinion or an idea that has nothing to do with God. It’s all centered around societies’ ideology of who, what and how. The Song of Solomon says, “Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.” (Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV) Little can do tremendous harm.  

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10 KJV

Fight in prayer, hold fast to the promise God has given you.

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