Stop collecting arrows!

It doesn’t matter who you are, everyday we fall short whether it’s mumbling something under our breath, purposely not giving eye contact, not taking thoughts captive, ignoring someone, you name it we’ve all done it. I’m only saying this because it takes one to know one. Like “you spot it you got it”. I’ve done everything I just listed, even after coming to Christ. And all of that is just something that happens when we let the enemy win! No sin is too small. Sin is sin. And it’s not like I let the enemy win the entire day or week, but he won that moment where I let the thoughts linger too long or I did something with the wrong motive. And I envision that every time we let something so small happen, it’s the enemy using us to throw an arrow at someone. Again, I say it could be the smallest thing, but once  that last arrow comes and hits us right in the forehead and we land flat on our backs. Then we say, “Oh God help me why is this happening?!” And I mean like He was there… watching… the whole time. While we were there with 100 arrows in us trying to keep a smile and act like everything is okay!!! And God will let it happen time and time again until you realize, He wants you to turn to Him when that first arrow hits you. Not after you’re trying everything you can to do it your way and finally you realize once again that God’s way is better. It also helps me realize if I don’t always build my relationship with God, my foundation is literally sand. So those arrows will come at me hard and hit deep. So, it’s like if I can’t handle the battles I face here in a God bubble, what gives me the right to even think I can go out into the real world and be able to handle anything? So, I have to keep building a firm foundation with God, so hopefully eventually the first few arrows thrown at me won’t even penetrate because I’ll just know it was from the devil. Then when an arrow finally does get through, I’ll straight away turn to God and STOP collecting arrows.