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 “Blue Pill or Red Pill?”

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We have been talking in our series about being “All In” in our relationship with the Lord, that it means being “all done “living by our flesh; we may have had strongholds in our flesh i.e. anger, rage, rejection, religion, control but they are gone because we have dealt with the root.

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One of the strongholds that the Bible speaks about is “bitterness” and it is identified as a root - it bears fruit of rebellion against God and other sins of the flesh. It leads to a disrespect of the sacred and bears the fruit of sexual immorality. Bitterness is a powerful root of a demonic stronghold that has the potential to defile our spirit.

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There is an idiom or a saying that we use - “a bitter pill to swallow.”  It means that a circumstance has happened in our lives that are hard for us to accept - it's a harsh reality. (death, divorce, loss of job, illness) The reality of this in the life of a believer, is that God is using them as opportunities to bring “discipline” into our lives - discipline means instruction and training. To accept discipline is a necessary part of the life of the student, but you may see it as something else - as a “bitter pill to swallow”.

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 So, in the words of Morpheus talking to Neo in The Matrix: “you can take the blue pill or the red pill.” In the context of what we're talking about this morning the blue pill means that you can get bitter about the circumstances of life and go through life in frustration and anger and discouragement.

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Or you can take the red pill - which means that you see the events that happen in your life as God wanting to refine you and to discipline you in order for you to achieve all that He has for you to do.

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Hebrews 12: 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.