Leaving - Corrinne May

There's a comfort in this darkness
A familiar road
though i know that you are no good for me
you're a false alibi
you hypnotize and you keep tempting me
to throw away eternity

Time to wake-up and shake-up
'cause you've kept me right under your spell for too long
your promise is empty
go dig your claws in somebody else
'cause it won't be me

i'm leaving
leaving this path behind
don't need your sympathy
i'm leaving
don't try to change my mind

it's a new day, a new way
change is never easy enough
but i'm not giving up
see i'm growing and i'm sowing
seeds of life beyond this shell
i'm going to be free
breakout from this cell

leaving, leaving this path behind
don't need your sympathy
i'm leaving
don't try to change my mind
i'm leaving this path behind

shake my faith
you're never gonna break me
take my strength
you're never gonna make me
turn my back away from the truth
i won't play your games
i'm nobody's fool

i'm leaving
leaving this path behind
don't need your sympathy
i'm leaving
don't try to change my mind
i'm leaving this path behind

i'm leaving this path behind
i'm leaving this path behind
i'm leaving this path behind

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When I heard this song, it reminded me about what I walked away from - a stronghold of melancholy and angst and self-pity.

I used to, as a teenager, enjoy basking in the sorrows of this world - thinking it was what life is all about. That darkness did seem so comforting - it felt like a darkness that understood me. BUT I realised that it was a darkness that trapped me in it. I fed on the darkness and it fed on me... not healthy at all. Is it no wonder that the enemy wants us to remain in that sad bleak existence? The joy of the LORD is our strength, and as long as we remain in that grey storminess, we will remain weak and lack the Spiritual strength to stand up against the enemy as he robs us blind =p

Now I know better and I am not going to turn back to that old way of thinking and living. I've left it behind and that's that. I am a new creation in Christ Jesus! AMEN!

So the enemy sometimes tries to be funny as he always does - trying to shake our faith in the Truth, trying to suck us back in to our old ways. But praise God, my strength is in Christ and I won't be "suckered" into playing his games...

Neh 6: 3 is the response we should give to the enemy when he is trying to 'be funny' with us -

"I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?"