It'll Be Okay

This is the message for the song "It'll Be Okay" off my album Intimately Consumed. Hope it encourages you to keep pushin' through no matter what!

Let me start this message off with this. I have failed over and over again. I have messed up countless times. I have sinned and turned back to the same sinful ways again and again. I have battled and wrestled against the flesh. I have cried out for freedom in certain areas of my life literally for years without seeing true break through (although He was faithful and He brought it to pass!).

I am a human being just like you! I have felt like quitting and giving up countless number of times. I have cried, weeped, mourned, yelled, etc... All through this... I have come to know several things. He is faithful even when were not. He is love and His love knows no end. He has blotted out our transgressions. He will remember them no more (Hebrews 8:12). He will not condemn us (Romans 8:1). He has nothing but goodness for His children.

Through our shortcomings, He just wants us to come back to Him (Matt 11:28-30). This song was dedicated to the body of Christ. I wrote this song to all those in the midst of struggles with sin. Whether it is lust, pornography, addictions, friends who pull you down, etc - it doesn't matter. I wrote this song for those that truly love the Lord with all their hearts. I wrote this for those that want nothing but to live their lives sold out and abandon to Jesus, but still struggle with sin (all believers haha - and if you don't... you might want to repent of pride!). I wrote this for the one's that burn to see His fire in their lives. The message is this - it's by the grace and mercy of God that you will be free from anything, not by our works or effort. Even if you could free yourself or abstain from sin for a while through strong will, you would end up being dependent on your own strength which is limited, weak and frail while God's is limitless. It's not by our own strength, but by the power of His Spirit (Zechariah 4:6).

Hebrews put's it plainly in chapter 12 when it says to lay aside or throw off the thing which so easily entangles you, fix your eyes back on Jesus, and keep running the race! What you focus on, you empower. The enemy wants you de-railed and focused on the thing which has you captive. Don't fix your eyes on that - for do you not know that it looks so small if you would re-adjust and focus your eyes elsewhere? You must keep your eyes fixed on Jesus or you will grow weary very quickly.

I have seen several Christians give their lives to Christ, get excited about living for Him, realize there is still a battle with sin, fall back into sin, and run away from God because of condemnation, guilt, and feeling like a straight up hypocrite. How tragic this is! How it grieves my heart as well as the Father's. Do you not know that you are forgiven? Do you not know that the Father looks into the thoughts and intent of your heart - not at how you perform (1 Sam 16:7)? There is a huge difference between immaturity and blatant rebellion. This message is for those in the struggle. You have to keep a heart that says "YES" to God no matter how many times you fall or turn away. Do you not know that the Father's arms are wide open to you and He is waiting for you to come back home like the prodigal son(Lk 15)?

As His children - we have to understand what justification means. It's completely by His mercy and grace that we are saved. Justification is a finished worked. He has accredited all the righteousness of Christ to our "account" through the death and resurrection of His Son (2 Cor 5:21). We never have to sit around wondering what God thinks of us. When you turn your heart back to Jesus - you are forgiven completely and wholly - no questions asked (1 Jn 1:9). As Jesus said, "It is finished." Praise the Lord Jesus Christ! Don't flatter yourself into thinking that you can out-sin the grace and love of God. Jump back into His arms and keep running the race the Lord has set before you. Don't focus on sin - focus on Jesus and move forward!