Eye Candy

My sister, Angela, quoted in her Facebook status on 9.10.13: “After all, you think you are so wise, but you enjoy putting up with fools. you put up with it when someone enslaves you, takes everything you have, takes advantage of you, takes control of everything, and slaps you in the face. I'm ashamed to say that we've been too 'weak' to do that,” 2 Corinthians 11: 19-21.

What do we really 'put up with'? Are we feeling weak?
In my weakness, Father, there I will find my strength in You.

                                                                                            

I love Angi’s willingness to see her weaknesses as well as how Father has, does, and will strengthen her. We read the same Bible readings daily and we often talk about what stands out to us and what Father is saying to us. This is what I received out of these particular verses as I read them:

In 2 Corinthians 2:20 in the NKJV it says, "For you put up with it if one brings you into bondage..." I was stuck on that verse and started to think, “If one can bring us into bondage, surely THE ONE can bring us out - instantly or through a process.” I also was thinking of how (1) I allowed others to bring me into bondage in my life, you know, by just being around and having all their "eye candy" around and I do not mean physical body eye candy either. Eye candies are the things that draw my focus off doing what is right. (2) I have brought others into bondage by simply living my life enjoying my eye candy. Yeeeeouwcheeewow wuh!

Here are a few examples of eye candies for me: donuts, cookies, cakes, yelling when I am angry and more. I fight against these eye candies often. When they are presented to me I have learned (still learning) I have a voice and a will to say, "NO, I will not allow them to enslave me, take what I have worked so hard for (a healthy body, mind, soul, and spirit), nor take advantage of me, take control of everything in my life or even slap me in the face. When I say NO to these 'eye candies’, I am actually taking control and slapping the candy in the face. Uh huh, take that, Jack! (No real Jack intended, of course.)

Let us stop putting up with these things...let us say NO and rise into the realm of the supernatural and out of the 'fleshly' natural.

Father, so often we have ‘put up with’ being in bondage by others and ourselves, forgive us. Today, we are taking a stand, declaring to You that we will allow Jesus through the guidance of Holy Spirit to bring us out of and into freedom. Whether this freedom happens instantaneously or through Your divine processes, we will go as you lead.