January 2017
It's dark, it's cold, it's wet... A water droplet falls from the ceiling onto my brow and streams delicately down my face. The, what we would think, light pressure from the water makes me cringe in pain from the bruises I've endured this last 60 days. I sit crouched in the corner scared and afraid of any sound I hear coming towards me. I shiver in cold and in a pain I cannot explain to you. My life overcome again by the demon I allowed to live, the demon I was afraid to kill. The very demon who I again let into my heart, full of broken promises, lies, and sounds of sweet nothings. I turned my back on Jesus and became a victim to my own demise. I sit starving to breath clean air, starving for light in the darkness, starving for a reason to take another step. As I suffocate curled up in a ball, chains around my hands and feet attached to the wall of the dungeon I hear the gnarly snarl of the demon. I bury my head in between my legs and continue to cry. Short of breath, not a single sound exits my weary and battered body. One step after another the ground begins to shake, the thuds in the night are back to torment and haunt my very being. I smell the stench and feel the breath of the one who has me captive yet again. "Look at me!" The demon demands. As I peer through my arms slightly at his face, his teeth like the jaws of a great white, spit dripping from his lips.
He grabs my arms throws me against the wall and says, "your nothing without me, you need me, I am your savior." Suddenly a light swoops in, and behind the demon stands a light so bright all I can see is a white. White so bright my eyes begin to ache, after being in the dark so long I feel blinded. I can longer see the demon before me. He stands pierced with light across the room. As the light petrudes the flesh of the demon, he cries out with a yell so ear piercing my hands fall to my ears. His body begins to grow, light begins to run through his veins until he explodes into a huge burst of light! 
The walls of the once dungeon crumble to the earth as though an earthquake just shook the world in two. 
I look over and a man begins to walk towards me, I hear a voice say "It is finished!" (John 19:30) As the man gets closer I hear him speak, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of my life." (John 8:12) 
The man in white holds out his hand and the chains that I have been shackled to are no longer there, the bruises gone. He leans down wipes a tear from my eye and says, " ...whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it." (Mark 8:34-35). I stand up and see my cross laying aside the once doorway, the man turns and points to the cross. I stumble, legs so strong I'm breathless to miracle. I pick up my cross and next to it lies my sword, the book of truth. The very Jesus I turned my back on has come to save me yet again. I look deep into his eyes and sing "I believe in you, I believe you rose again, I believe that Jesus Christ is lord!" He bends over and picks up the sword, holds it out to me in his hands and says, " ...If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." (John 8:31)
"As the father loved me, I also have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full." (John 15:9-11) "You are my friends if you do whatever I command you." (John 15:14) "You did not choose me but I CHOSE YOU..." (John 15:16) I take the sword from him, hug him, fall to my knees and say "I serve you and only you it is you Whom I owe my existence too." He puts his arm around me and says "well let's go little brother, you are an heir to true royalty, and we have work to do." 
You know life isn't ever promised to be easy, it's not even promised! People say in constant why am I here, what do I have to live for? The truth is you have to get out of the world and into Jesus. You are here to serve Jesus! It took me another battle, but what I have learned is priceless. I have no dungeon, I have no demon, I've been cleansed by the blood of Jesus. I'm grateful of the armor he has given me to withstand the world and its temptations. My faith lives in the Gospel because I AM A CHILD OF GOD!
Copyright 2017
Sean A. Blair-Smith
R.E.B.L.E. Ministries
