Unprepared

We as humans are ill prepared for death.  Unless your Elijah, Enoch, or Moses, we will all perish from life as we know it.  I believe, with all that I hold dear, that when it's my time to leave this earth, I will go to heaven.  I think the first sentence is more about wrestling with those times when we lose a loved one.  Our hearts cry out in anguish because of the love we hold for them and death removes the opportunity to see them, hear them, and tell them we love them.  As a Christian I should be celebrating the life of my loved ones, particularly if they are Christ followers.  Based on my beliefs I know where they are going.

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.