It’s Not That Deep

Believe it or not, these four words have become my daily confession, and yes I know it’s nothing really profound, but as a Christian who has been in a season of spiritual warfare for what feels like forever, these words have kept me sane for the past few weeks.  “It’s not that deep” has become the daily reminder for me not to take everything so seriously, not to be so easily offended at people and their comments, and not to think that everything is about me.

It seems simple enough to understand that not everything is about me, but I have been in a season that felt like I had to fight just to stay alive, and yes, I know that the Christian walk in this generation is not synonymous with struggle and difficulties, and so even I, at some point felt that there must have been something I did that allowed this season of suffering to enter into my life, from: I must have some generational curse, it’s likely deeper than that, but honestly even in my suffering and pain, the Lord in His mercies was always reminding me that I will be fine and that having done all to stand (reference to Ephesians 6:13), I need to keep standing on His word.

Job chapter 1 serves as a reminder for anyone still pondering the question I once asked myself, what did I do to deserve this? And the answer is nothing, because the bible tells us that Job was a blameless man, a man that feared God, and yet all these things happened to him (Read Job 1), the chapter begins as a man who was blameless and upright, and we see that through no error from his side, he found himself in a season of great loss and pain.

We see another man in scripture Naaman in 2 Kings 5:1 KJV “Now Naaman, captain of the host of the King of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper,” and so with no wrong doing from his side, Naaman was a leper.  How could I forget Jesus Christ who was without sin, died a painful brutal death? Daily I remind myself ‘it’s not that deep’ because it allows me to realise that not everything is about me, and nothing that happens in my life will destroy me because though the weapons keep forming around me daily, they will not prosper.  And so here I am, sent to remind whoever this is for, that ‘it’s not that deep,’ and even if it is, God has your back regardless, and He will restore everything, because if you read any story that involves loss in the Bible, the Lord always, always restores.

I leave you with these final words written by the Apostle Paul in his second letter to the church in Corinth, 2 Corinthians 4:7-10, “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellence of the power may be of God and not us.  We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed – always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.” And so, although we all want easy, the Lord’s promise to all was for a “burden and yoke” that was easy (reference to Matthew 11:28-30).