Note: I suggest you read FREEDOM first before you read this.

SURROUNDED
The truth made me free
It actually did.
The truth gave me freedom indeed.
I was working in the light.
I was sleeping in the light.
I was eating in the light.
I was going to church in the light.
I was basking in the light.
I was enjoying my freedom.
There was this peace in my heart.
A joy I cannot explain.
I was free indeed...
But...
I forgot something
I forgot I was still surrounded
I let down my guard.
Remember my 'friends'?
I left them in the darkness
But they were still around me.
I was supposed to stay away
I am now a changed person
I was not careful enough.
They were pulling me back gradually and I did not know.
I knew that there were going to be temptations here and there.
I thought I could overcome them.
So I allowed my 'friends'
At first I found myself in between the light and darkness with a chain holding me.
I was surprised at first..
"It's just a chain, I should be able to handle it" I thought.
"Hahahaha"
I was fooling myself.
Since I could still see my self in the light
"It does not matter" I thought.
Gradually, I became distant to the word.
My prayer life became a sleeping time.
I reduced fellowshipping with other believers.
Gradually it started and before I knew it I stopped.
"I am still under grace" I thought
Until I found myself back in the darkness
With more chains holding me
And they were more painful and at the same time pleasurable but since I knew the truth already I did not want them.
But I did not know how to get out again.
Guess what...
Mercy found me.
I cried out to God.
Mercy brought me out.
Now I have learned my lesson.
I was actually free.
I thought that was all there is to it.
I wasn't careful enough.
I let down my guard.
Forgetting the fact that I was and remembering always that I'm still very much surrounded.
James 4:7, Hebrews 12:1, Jeremiah 2:3.
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