On the day that you open your eyes to see the world for the first time
It’s put there in your brand new little mind
Your eyes aren’t able to see clear quite yet
And you rely on the familiar voices to get your needs met
As you quickly grow in that first year
It’s already started instilling fear
You aren’t even aware it’s happening at all
It works hard hoping someday you’ll fall
As you grow older you later find
The strongholds that were created in your mind
It could be from the parents who brought you into this world that is broken
Or from harsh words from peers that were spoken
Maybe a person who promised to be here forever and left
Leaving you with memories you just can’t forget
It’s there taunting and twisting these things around on you
It’s your fault and there’s nothing you can do
You turn to whatever takes away the enormous pain in your soul
Maybe an eating, disorder, drugs, alcohol, cutting or whatever makes you think you have control
It works on you day and night
To convince you to give up the fight
The war inside of you that started from birth
To take your life and destroy your self worth
To never let you see who you really are created to be
To keep you from ever knowing the only one who could break you free
Sometimes these things won’t happen and you will have comforts of all kinds
A nice family and home and no worries in your mind
It will keep you complacent and dependent on the things the world says you need
With an endless appetite you’ll need to continue to feed
It wants to keep you from discovering inside you the place
And keep you from the only one who is meant to fill that space
It works tirelessly to keep you from ever knowing
Leaving you empty and never growing
But there is one who will pursue you and wait for you to understand
That He’s always been there holding out His right hand
To finally let Him inside of your heart
Where He was always meant to be from the start
Where He will replace the lies and deception in your mind every day
With promises in His word, teaching you how to pray
It will always try to come back, but you’ll be aware of the war
He will strengthen you and remind you what you were created for
It will try to come back and remind you of who you were before
It will try and pull you back in and ignore
That no matter what you have and will ever still do
That God has and will always love you
It will always try to pull you back in promising you with lies
Sin wrapped in a beautiful disguise
It’s easy to listen and follow when things are going great
But there will be seasons in this life you will have to wait
Seasons of suffering and loss in this broken world we live in
It will try it’s hardest to win
And if you mess up and give into the temptations
Because of your very human limitations
Remember why Jesus on this earth was sent
Turn back from your sin and repent
Remember His mercies are new everyday
Stay close with Him and pray
It won’t ever give up because it knows you’ll be a threat
Remember this and don’t ever forget
If it’s bothering you, then you’re bothering it too
It will come back sometimes trying to lie to you
But you will be prepared
There is not one reason to be scared
God already told us of his fate
The liar and the one who spews hate
“The devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and false prophet were, and they were tormented day and night forever and ever ”Revelation 20:10”
His fate is sealed. He’s not that clever
In this world that will give false promises and every distraction
That looks for likes and reactions
For the approval and acceptance and need to be seen
With a liar keeping them from ever knowing what it means
In this life He gave us, he created us to be seen by Him
With Him living inside of us, we will always win
Jesus died for you and me
He gave His life so we could be free
Do you know it’s a liar who wants to keep you trapped in bondage and a prison
Leaving you blind without vision
It wants you stay and live in the places you fell
It wants to drag you right down with him to Hell
Do you know you don’t have to go there with him to that place?
Take the Lord’s hand, look up and seek His face
Remember the liar wants to take your life and steal and kill
Don’t ever give up because the God who made you never will
Grab His and and hold on tight
Don’t give up on the fight
The liar will try to steal your soul
Because it knows it has lost control
You were always God’s, He’s called you his own
He’s always with you, you’re never alone Your heart and soul was never for the liar to steal
The empty spaces inside of them are real
It’s perfectly shaped like God’s image in your soul
He’s the only one who can make it whole
You have a choice of life or death, so what’s it going to be?
Make sure you choose wisely
God won’t make you to take His hand
He won’t force you to want understand
Choose to let him in the deepest parts of your heart where you have kept Him out
Choose to give it all to Him, even the doubt
He waits for you to choose him because he’s already chosen you
The gift you are to this world he already knew
Learn and hear the truth knowing It’s one of two places, Heaven or Hell that you’ll be going
He gives us the free will to choose
Just make it knowing all you have to lose
It’s a life just lived here gaining the world but losing your soul
Where you give the liar all the control
Or it’s letting go of this life and giving it to the God who made you with His love
And living for eternity with Him in heaven above
©️ Jennifer Lyn Fletcher
Honest Journey 