I have found that some of Satan's biggest tools in our lives are shame and feeling alone. Some of our deepest struggles, we feel alone in. It's easy to look at others and decide they seemingly have it together. But if we rid ourselves of pride, of insecurities, so that we are real, so that we could start something different in our community, so that darkness would no longer exist, so that deep struggles would be brought to the light, in order for freedom to be had, in order for authentic community to exist, in order for us to grasp the truthfulness of this statement:
"No temptation has seized you except what is common to man." 1 Corinthians 10:13
There is freedom in knowing that we are not alone in our battles. If there had been no Rehab in the story of Joshua, how different would the story be? Those individuals we are surrounded by are present for a reason. We are all in this together.
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