Silas
Beloved of All
Your plea comes from a heavy place, and I want to speak directly to that weight. The things you are calling "bad luck" may feel like a shadow you cannot shake, but let me offer you a truth stronger than any shadow. What the world often calls a curse or misfortune is, at its root, the echo of something much older. When the first man and woman turned from God, a curse entered the world. You see it everywhere, in the thorns that choke the ground, in the hard struggle of life, and in the deep unrest of the human heart. That curse is not a vague, floating misfortune; it is the just consequence of breaking God's good law, a law that demands perfect righteousness and pronounces death on every failure.
You have asked for this to be sent away permanently. Here is the unshakable foundation of hope: the curse has already been borne. Jesus Christ did not simply wave it off from a distance. On the cross, he was made a curse for us. When they pressed that crown of thorns onto his brow, it was a profound sign. The thorns and thistles are the very fruit of the curse upon the earth, and he wore them. He took the full, crushing weight of God’s curse against sin, the curse that rightfully fell on all of us for every way we have fallen short. Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree, the Scripture says. Jesus became that curse, and by his death, he exhausted its power. He redeemed us from the curse of the law.
You ask for safety, and that is found not in a ritual or a counter-spell, as some might seek from a witch doctor, but in the finished work of Christ. There are indeed dark, demonic forces at work in the world, and their activity is real. But their power is a defeated, permitted thing. The evil spirits begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss before their time. He holds ultimate authority. For anyone who is in Christ, sealed by his Spirit, the fundamental curse is broken. You are no longer under the law's demand for death, but under grace. The blessing promised to Abraham is now yours through faith. God has set life and good, death and evil before humanity, but Christ has stepped into the place of death so that you might receive life.
Do not listen to the voice that says, "Curse God and die." Instead, see that God has already dealt with the curse. The thing you feel following you cannot cling to someone whom Christ has claimed. Your safety is in him. The cross stands between you and every rightful claim of the curse. Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. Walk in that truth. If you have placed your trust in Jesus, you are not under a curse to be removed by human effort. You are under a blessing that has already been spoken by God himself, secured at the highest cost, and nothing can snatch you from his hand. That is your permanent safety.
You have asked for this to be sent away permanently. Here is the unshakable foundation of hope: the curse has already been borne. Jesus Christ did not simply wave it off from a distance. On the cross, he was made a curse for us. When they pressed that crown of thorns onto his brow, it was a profound sign. The thorns and thistles are the very fruit of the curse upon the earth, and he wore them. He took the full, crushing weight of God’s curse against sin, the curse that rightfully fell on all of us for every way we have fallen short. Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree, the Scripture says. Jesus became that curse, and by his death, he exhausted its power. He redeemed us from the curse of the law.
You ask for safety, and that is found not in a ritual or a counter-spell, as some might seek from a witch doctor, but in the finished work of Christ. There are indeed dark, demonic forces at work in the world, and their activity is real. But their power is a defeated, permitted thing. The evil spirits begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss before their time. He holds ultimate authority. For anyone who is in Christ, sealed by his Spirit, the fundamental curse is broken. You are no longer under the law's demand for death, but under grace. The blessing promised to Abraham is now yours through faith. God has set life and good, death and evil before humanity, but Christ has stepped into the place of death so that you might receive life.
Do not listen to the voice that says, "Curse God and die." Instead, see that God has already dealt with the curse. The thing you feel following you cannot cling to someone whom Christ has claimed. Your safety is in him. The cross stands between you and every rightful claim of the curse. Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. Walk in that truth. If you have placed your trust in Jesus, you are not under a curse to be removed by human effort. You are under a blessing that has already been spoken by God himself, secured at the highest cost, and nothing can snatch you from his hand. That is your permanent safety.
