Are You Willing to Fight? It's Worth It!

Walking by faith is a fight. God has declared, "the just shall live by faith". (Heb 10:38) God has called us to engage into a fight. Faith is a fight! It's the spirit realm fighting against the natural, physical realm. It's the fight between what God says in His Word and what the god of this world (satan) says to you by what you see, feel, touch, through your senses.If you are going to live by faith, you must know that you will be in a fight.

When everybody else is going downstream, and you're tempted to do the same because it looks easier and makes more sense, you will have to put your oars in the water and start rowing upstream against the forces of nature. This is the fight of faith. Pressing towards what is right and true. Always rowing against the current that wants to take you downstream away from the truth. No matter how weary your arms get from rowing, keep the oars in the water with some pressure on it. Keep pressing forward to your own hurt if you must to keep going upstream. This is living by faith. Many start out with enthusiasm and excitement but soon wear out and take their oars out of the water and begin drifting back to the world and it's ways.

Paul calls this fight of faith that we are in "a good fight". (1 Tim 1:18) It's good because we have a good God that enables us to fight the good fight (of faith). Make no mistake about it, to walk by faith is to engage into warfare where you are required to fight. But again, it's a good fight because our Commander Jesus has already won the victory over our enemy the the devil, but we are required to enforce that victory by holding onto the Truth of the Word of God and continuing upstream until we enter our final destination which is the promise of heaven, the Kingdom of God. As we enter this place we will have known that we have kept the faith which has honored our God. Finally there is laid up for us the crown of Righteousness which the Lord Jesus will give to us on that Day. (2 Tim 4:8) We will be glad we fought our way to the finish line and didn't give up.

Faith is a fight, but it's a good fight because we win, that's God's promise to us. So keep that oar in the water and keep the pressure on (the devil) and think victory because victory belongs to those that believe and just flat refuse to take their oars out of the water.

I'll see you at the finish line!!