By Treva Susuras

God is our Rock and our Redeemer. He is our firm foundation. It is not up to us to be perfect. We can’t be perfect. God knows that and that is why He sent His only Son to save us from our sinful selves. He can set us free! Praise the lord. There is hope. Let me explain, Life is hard for some of us actually, most of us at one time or another. We may feel like we need to escape what it is were going through. We can’t out run it, we can’t ignore it, so we choose to smother it. Only thing is, it never dies. We can’t get away. So we put on what I call our rose colored glasses. Now, our rose colored glasses makes everything look so much better, but it’s not, it’s the same, it just doesn’t matter as much with these glasses on. The rose colored glasses can be drinking alcohol, taking drugs, binge eating, sexual activities, really, anything that will give us relief. Even if it’s temporary, it is better than feeling the pain. Have you ever looked through rose colored glasses? When you do it makes things disappear, you can’t see all the imperfections. Things look so much better, the imperfections are still there you just can’t see them anymore. The problem is, it is usually harmful to us in some way, or at some time or other we have to stop what we are doing and see reality. That is hard. Even times we may enter into a relationship we never thought we would enter into before. Even though that relationship is bad, we are not alone. Most time it is a relationship helps distort our vision and becomes our rose colored glasses or lead’s to them.

Every time we try and take off the rose colored glasses, the problem is still there. It has never been dealt with. We may try not putting them back on but will fail because we can’t stand the pain. Now believe me the pain will go and you will be able to live a life of victory, but not with the rose colored glasses on. Example, when my son died, the pain was to great, there was no way I could live through this, I have never felt so hurt and alone. At that time I could have easily put on the rose colored glasses, and had it been years before I would have, but I had already experienced that. I knew if I relied on something to get me through this and live it was going to have to be Jesus. Drugs were a temporary fix, alcohol was also a temp fix. No, this time it would be Jesus. I have relied on those other things before and those rose colored glasses I wore had taken away my time with my 2 oldest children, one of which was now gone and I could never get that time back, and the other one is still here but her childhood was stolen while I was wearing the glasses. I couldn’t see my hurt but I also lost my present, which then led to me losing my past memories with them. I have 4 children and found Jesus just after my last 2 were born. I remember their childhood and it was good but only because I had broken my rose colored glasses. I now see reality, deal with whatever it is according to the word of God and move on.

It is possible to live a life of victory. You have to be willing to fill your life with God’s word, and take off the rose colored glasses. When you do just know the enemy will not say, “ oh darn, guess I’ll move on” no he will say, “you can’t do this, you need a drink, drugs, food,(whatever it may be)” basically he says “ you can’t do this so you better put on your rose colored glasses and make it go away” but it will never go away till you break those glasses. Break them and reach out to Jesus. You have to tell the devil to shut up and go away. Another words rebuke the devil and he will flee from you! There will be times when you are tempted to put on the glasses but don’t do it and you will be on your way to freedom. I promise, you wont die on your way to dealing with past and present hurts. Things in your life you just can’t deal with. If you deal with it now you WILL be set free. It hurts to deal with hurtful things but once you do it can never come back and hurt you again. You will remember it, and sometimes feel sad but it cannot control you and cause you unbearable pain because you have already dealt with it. In the end it will be worth it.

Ladies that have fallen, you know who you are, take off the glasses and start over. We can have do overs over and over. You are not alone! God Bless you all and please, if you need help reach out to us. We want to be there for you!

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