24
Nov
2008
The Price of Your Fight
1 Timothy 6v12 (NASV)
‘Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.’
I’ve been watching my way through a Box set series lately – “Band of Brothers”, a Story of the epic adventures of ‘Easy Company’ Regiment through the War. Throughout the series I’ve been struck with the price of war, the price of fighting for something you believe in, sometimes the price can be very high and for many in the war they paid the ultimate price by losing their life for the cause they were fighting for.
In life we will make decisions, some good, some bad, but we will have to live with the consequences of those decisions, and fight our way through the consequences of any bad decisions we make, The beauty of this fight is we have our Saviour, that wants to stand with us as we try to change things for the better, we are not alone, Its in the relationship that we build with Jesus on this earth through the Holy Spirit we can become over comers of the things that will try to destroy us and trip us up. The beauty I’ve seen in my own life is that when I mess up, I continually realise the need to depend more on God, I’m on a journey to depending on God in everything, its easier said than done mind you!
In my 26 years on this earth I’ve learned that I can be my worst enemy, I set standards that I can never meet and don’t expect anyone else to meet, so when I fail I can be very hard on myself, I’m having to learn to use my mistakes as learning curves, they are opportunities for me to strengthen my armour and sharpen my sword before continuing with the next battle in my life.
I Love the Message version of 1 Timothy 6v11-12
‘….Pursue a righteous life—a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy. Run hard and fast in ‘the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses. ‘
Guys there it is, pursue a righteous Life! Our Life is not about the past, The Present needs our focus as our future is going to be the reward for our focus for serving, fighting and living for God.
Life is short, remember its only what we do for Christ that will last for eternity!
Every fight has a cost, no matter how big or small, but we as believers must not let our family and friends pay the worst cost of spending eternity Lost in Hell, We must Love the unlovable, Bring hope to the Hopeless, Help the Broken and weary, Comfort those who morn and are sick, we must give those we do life with glimpses of Jesus by living his call out in our Lives, this will be tough at times, but lets not lose the focus of why we are doing it, because its all about Jesus!
