Are You Trapped?

March 30, 2025
 
Reflections from the Heart of Allan Redenius
You can hear his breathing, a deep, haunting kind of gasp.  His very presence raises the hair on the back of your neck, tingles down your spine.  Like the wavy, shimmering heat on a summer afternoon that you see on the hot asphalt up ahead, you know that it is there, but when you get there, it is not.  Like a parched desert your mouth is suddenly dry.  A voice within you tells you, “This is wrong, turn and run!”    
 
All of these things, a warning to you, danger lies ahead!  The Holy Spirit within you rising up to tell you that he with whom you are about to battle, is unseen, elusive, deceptive, cunning, ruthless, and that if you continue on course, he will claim victory over you as you willingly surrender that which is most precious and dear, your soul.  Don't move, stay where you're at, like one caught in quicksand, there is no escape.  Are you caught in the web that you have weaved, no matter the fight, there you are trapped?  Soon, the spider comes out from his hidden place to spin his web around you, to claim you as his own.   He, the spider, is the one whose presence you felt but could not see.  The warning signs were all about.  The snare had been set, the cage prepared, but the sweetness of the lure, all too tempting. 
 
Realizing the gravity, the seriousness of where you find yourself, you look for an escape, and there is none.  Thrash around in the quicksand, the more you sink.  As you try to free yourself from the web you have weaved, the tighter its grip.  You cry out, “Is there any escape, any rescue?”  
 
Try by your own power, your own might, your own ingenuity, there is no escape, no rescue.  However, there is One Who holds the key to free you from the cage, the sin, in which you are trapped.   His name is Jesus.  Call upon Him and He brings the sweet aroma of freedom and salvation.  The Lord Himself will deliver you from the spider who so wants to devour you, to claim you as his own.  Only Jesus can lift you out of the bowels of hell to the glory of heaven.  What are you waiting for?  
 
Hating the spider,
Pastor Allan
 
 
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