Amare Eric

"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." 2 Corinthians 3:5 Once you have crossed the Red Sea and left the "fence" of Egypt behind, the adrenaline of the miracle eventually fades. You look around and realize that while you are free, you are also in a wilderness. There are no grocery stores in the desert, and the "onions and garlic" of your old life are thousands of miles away. This is the survival stage of the journey. It is...

"Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea." 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 We have spent time discussing the "fence," that middle ground of indecision where we try to keep one foot in our old life and one foot in our calling. But there comes a point where the fence isn't just a place of stagnation; it becomes a place of death. For the children of...

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service". Romans 12:1 In our last conversation, we looked at the danger of the "middle ground." We identified the "fence" as that place of false safety where we try to balance our worldly comforts with our spiritual desires. But once we recognize the fence for the trap that it is, we often face a second, more subtle temptation: the...