Fighting the Fight: is it worth it?
At the current moment, I am fighting a sinus infection, a horrible one at that. My ears hurt, my chest is congested, I feel like i pulled a muscle in my back from coughing so much..and I've gone through two tissue boxes. And at the moment it's 3-0, infection 2.0 (second one of the year). Also, currently fighting the resistance to drink a big glass of sweet tea, and eat an oatmeal cookie. And then I've been fighting the sleep monster and in case you don't know who or what that is..its the annoying thing that keeps you awake, and wakes you up in the middle of the night & you'd do anything to fall back asleep. And well there's also another fight I am battling as well you if you choose..the spiritual fight. Fighting the world's temptation to dress immodestly, fill our heads with ungodly music, watch the impurest things and say words that shouldn't be spoken, and the fight to stay sexually pure is the heaviest temptation of all. And I'm not here to lift me myself up on a pedestal, but I would like to say of myself that I have fought very hard agains most if not all of the temptations above! It's hard, it's stressful, it hurts, you might lose those you love, you fee alone and unloved and as if there is no one on your side, and you probably won't receive a material reward, BUT it's worth it completely. Don't give up, and don't retreat in, and please never give in! Keep your eyes on the eternal guide and Conqueror of All for He loves YOU and has given you a life designed only for you. Some of my favorite verses to bring back to memory while fighting a fight are Romans 8:31-39... What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. So keep fighting the battle and remember that no matter the fight, and no matter the outcome, nothing can separate us from the LOVE of GOD. 🙌 |
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October 2017
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