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Friday, October 14, 2005
Well what shall I speak of? I guess what has been in my mind of late has been the idea about being a warrior for Christ, so to speak. I guess it's really the whole idea of fighting since we are told that our battle is with more than just flesh and blood (Galatians). I really have thought about battles and why we enter them or don't enter them. As a warrior, you don't get to choose the battle you participate in. A lot of us sit around (self included) and try to decide what battles we are going to fight. We decide whether we will battle or if we can battle. In essence we try to be both warrior and leader at the same time. But the Battle belongs to the LORD. I don't want to see that my battle may be with anger or pain or some sin. I want my battle to be over bad guys who are threatening the village. OR I want to defeat the alien armada with weapons or whatever else. Because those battles are easy ones. I will either win and have adoration or I will lose and probably be obliterated. And besides, in my head I never lose those battles anyway! But what about the battle that I am called to enter when it means remaining pure? Ugh, now that is different. Here the battle is murky and unpleasant. No one really knows if I win or lose, except me. And Christ. Here I may lose everything or I may be triumphant. But either way this isn't the battle I would choose on my own. For at heart that is part of my battle. Choosing to fight the battles that I told to fight instead of the ones I like to fight. Maybe that's where some of being afraid in our lives comes from. Will you fight the battle you are told to fight? The sad thing is when we don't fight, we don't really save our life at all--we lose it. Instead of fighting the battle we are to fight we may shrink in fear from it, or even worse a desire to not even fight that particular battle. And as a result? We are still slaves to that thing drives a wedge between us and God. We have no peace. And in our hearts we know we are cowardly, not because we tried and lost but because we never tried to fight it. OR we could take up the battle before us for being pure (in thought, mind, heart, deed) and fight. Throw caution and fear to the wind and fight. Trusting God because we are doing what He had ordered us to do. We can run the risk of losing our life, only to gain it the more. We are told in the Bible that to die is to gain, when we are dieing to self and living in Christ. But the battle front is far closer than we know. the battle is not safely tucked away in a land far away. The battle is in our hearts and minds. The battle is already here....we must simply decide whether or not we will surrender before the first shot is fired. |
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