The Son, The Source

Discouragement, no matter what the form, is a natural part of life. The complexity of it is that your mind is fighting through emotional warfare while your heart is crying. This combination can be extremely detrimental in one’s life, especially a Believer’s. Since discouragement is a part of life, it’s essential we deal with it the right way—the Godly way. How does the Lord say we handle these moments of discouragement? 

“If you want to be great in Christ, you have to know how to deal with emotional warfare.” –Pastor Vic

As my Pastor preached a sermon titled, “Take No Thought” (Matthew 6:31) I began to realize that discouragement is truly inevitable—there’s no way around it. Emotional warfare is simply when the enemy attacks your mind with a whole bunch of ridiculousness. The enemy will begin to tell you things like, “You aren’t good enough” or “You don’t have anyone to talk to.” In the sermon, God began to speak that WE DO have someone to talk to, our High Priest. (Hebrews 3:1) That WE ARE good enough and our lives were worth Christ dying for. The message really spoke to me; however I didn’t know I would go through this warfare so soon. 

No sooner than this sermon was preached, I started to experience this emotional warfare. Before I started walking with Christ, I didn’t handle this warfare in the best way. Last night I was headed back down the same path of handling it without the Son. However, just like God spoke through my Pastor a few days prior, my High Priest truly encouraged me through it. As I casually looked at the full moon last night, I was amazed. It appeared as though it was on fire. I had never in my entire life seen the moon this way. I am a big believer that God speaks through EVERYTHING. So I stopped and looked to the Son.

From a natural standpoint, the moon reflects light from the sun. The moon never produces its own light. The Lord reminded me how one day my Pastor used this analogy during a sermon, it’s powerful in itself. As believers, we are like the moon reflecting light from the sun, or the Son of God. The sun in all its glory and power provides light for the moon. Without the moon, we wouldn’t be able to see at night, here on Earth. If we didn’t have the Son, we (Believers) as the moon, wouldn’t have light for the World. When things are taking place on the Earth, whether it’s as chaotic as war or as crazy as a Justin Bieber concert, the moon never stops reflecting light from the sun. No matter what is going on around the moon, the sun remains its source of power and energy. We must be like the moon always looking to the Son, our High Priest for our source of encouragement. 

Child of God, emotional warfare is unfortunately inevitable. It’s important that we go to our High Priest for encouragement through these times. As I looked up at the moon, its light was reflecting from the sun. Let’s look up the Son of God, the way the moon relies on the sun. We must stop going through emotional warfare the way we did prior to walking with Christ. It never helped before; it definitely won’t benefit you now. “Take no thought” to those old ways. So before you run to your phone or to your best friend’s house for “worldly advice,” look to your High Priest for encouragement. Ask yourself questions like, “Is my source of encouragement coming from the Son of God? Who I am looking/ what do I look to first when I experience emotional warfare?” No matter what is going on around you or what discouragement comes your way, stop and look to the Son.