Beyond me

Ephesians 6:12                      New English Translation

12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

Beyond me

My battle has been defined, so what can weigh down my spirit?

How can Satan harass what is really not mine?

He interferes I know between me and the Holy Spirit

And deprives me of the lightness and the joy of feeling fine

A disregard for sin suppresses my spirit

With compromise in tow, I ignore my “Him”

And conscience will grow dull in a quick fashion

Until all feeling is gone and I’ll a “might-have-been”

My spirit is then imprisoned and the soul without guidance

The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning

When the spirit is oppressed my mind can’t function well

An attitude of indifference will clothe me like a garment

And selfishness will flourish and my pride will swell

Exercise my spirit and so to oppose suppression?

Can I resist it with a prayer requesting the Power of God?

Tell Jesus about my weakness, so He will make me stronger

He removes the power of evil, that my soul recognizes not