#5: What do you mean it was a trap??

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Galatians 3:3 KJV

See ba, Satan is a liar!!!

Grab a stool, because this particular story?? I MUST TELL IT📢.

About a month ago, I spoke to someone about Jesus.

Funny thing is, this absolutely unplanned evangelism happened the day I had decided to mind my own blessed business.

If I had known I was going to have that conversation, that day, I’d have rehearsed all my scriptures before bolting out of my house.

But the Holy Spirit does His thing the way He does it, and all I could do was follow along. 🚶🏽‍♀️

The most exciting part of that conversation was that, it all stemmed from a story I’d written on medium about scars.

One where I was more vulnerable than I planned to be. Read here

To my surprise, someone related.

As we spoke, all the scriptures spun in my head like tangled threads. But thankfully, the Holy Spirit had the mic the whole time. 😁

And I ended the conversation by recommending a study of the book of Galatians.

Honestly, I have no idea why I chose Galatians. In fact I'm sure I didn't. That was definitely the Holy Spirit, because if I had thought it through, I'd have definitely gone for something else, say Romans.

Again, the Holy Spirit does this thing His way.

Thing is, even though I knew God was on the wheels, I still spent a great deal of that day beating myself up about how imperfect the session was.

Plus, I was not completely sure what the person would find in Galatians, so I decided to go read through the book again myself.

And boy, it was a trap! 😭

Rewind to the days before ⏪

I’d been struggling with everything. And I mean everything. From trying to pray without dozing off mid-sentence, to juggling two jobs and pretending to be a functional adult.

Let’s just say my “quiet time” looked more like “quick nap time.”

When I eventually ended up in an impromptu evangelism, that ugly demon from the pit of hell kept whispering “what a joke, you don't even got your own life together”

Fast forward⏩

I knew God would answer my cry for help. But I didn't know It was going to be this dramatic. That I'd be so…involved😫.

So that evening, when I settled in my usual spot the read, somewhere between my bed and the table, this particular verse leaped off the page with so much force, it nearly blinded me.

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

—Galatians 3:3 KJV

Talk to me direct!! Phew..

SOME CONTEXT; In this book Paul is basically saying to the Galatians that salvation comes by faith and not by obeying the law. And that life should be lived in the spirit and not in the flesh.

But on top this my matter, it took God organising an impromptu evangelism for me to see that my own faith was dwindling.

Which just makes me wonder “How long had he been trying to tell me this one thing?”

And when He said my faith was dwindling, I realized He was pointing to something deeper.

I had started my journey by faith, by fully trusting in Him. But somewhere along the way, I began trying to sustain it all on my own. I started gripping tight to my strategies and productivity hacks.

I started living as though the Holy Spirit ceased to exist, and that everything now depended on me.

Don't get me wrong, these things definitely have their place. In fact God uses them to bring rhythm and structure to our lives.

But the danger is when God leads us into a season that demands His wisdom, and instead of seeking Him out, we go straight to downloading “5 Habits of High-Value Woman” from ChatGPT.

As if divine direction could be outsourced.

Haq haq haq😂

Sorry, no vex.

But wait…remember that place where Paul says;

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

—Galatians 2:20 KJV

My emphasis is on: …I live by faith of the Son of God..

It means, if I started my Christian journey by believing, by faith, I must stay in it by faith, and I must go on by faith because…

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

—Romans 1:17 KJV

God abeg!

So yes, I still have my daily routines written out. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, I have a entire document containing a map of the year.

Still, I wake up everyday with the help of the Holy Spirit and say “Lord, I hear you today. Lord, take the wheel”.

Because now I know that …it’s not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the living God. Zechariah 4:6