☀ JAY SITA RAM ☀

“They don’t understand the compromise and communication that it takes for a marriage to work- they’re definitely not going to make it!”

-My single ass watching Married at First Sight alone with a glass of wine

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Text ID: my solitude is an intoxication: I am, I'm in control, I love myself, and I scorn everything else.

You hear a knock at your door. When you open it, you find your archnemesis sprawled out just past the threshold, battered, bruised, and very clearly only hanging onto life by a thread. “Sorry. It’s just … I didn’t know where else to go” they mutter as you look down at them.

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You know, until I heard Pope Francis describe the gaze of Jesus that makes Peter break down crying in Luke 22:61-62 as one of compassion and understanding, I didn't realize I had been unconsciously assuming that it was one of accusation and "I told you so."

The devil was soundly defeated at the cross of Calvary—and that is something he doesn't want us to know. Through His death, Jesus destroyed the one who had the power of death, which is the devil. And when we put our faith in Jesus Christ, the stranglehold of Satan over our lives is broken. He cannot control us. He has no authority over us. We can rest in the finished work of Christ.

This means that when we face spiritual battles, we are not fighting for victory; we are fighting from it. We don't fight to get victory. We fight because it has already been obtained. Romans 8:37 tells us, "Despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ." Hallelujah!