Friday, August 19, 2016

Why fight?

All week long I've been hearing messages of victory.  Joel Osteen keeps saying we are victors not victims.  I can only speak for myself when I say for much too long I've felt like I have to fight all the negativity in life and those attacks seem to come from everywhere and seemingly non-stop.  

I have failed to realize that all the promises are true.  The battle has been won and it's not our fight.  As a kid when a large bully was after me I would run to my big brother and get behind him.  I knew he would protect me and I felt safe.  As Christians, we have that same protection behind the love and power of Jesus.  I think it's because I can't see it with my human senses and struggle to not stand and fight on my own.

I'm done fighting since I have the greatest power in the universe fighting my battles for me. 

No comments:

What am I doing wrong?

 This question was posed on a recent video I watched and it has me pondering what am I doing wrong?  I'm still delving into it and will ...