To Win You've got to Fight!

Imagine someone meandering out of the starting blocks for a big race. Sounds like they don't care about winning, right? Bottom line: you're not going to win if you don't try.

That's the problem with many Christians- they don't try. They think everything is going to come to them without them having to put in any of the work. Or they get bogged down in the daily battle, allowing depression, sadness or lack of progress to overwhelm them.

We should be reminded that this is a war we're in. We're fighting for our lives and the lives of those around us. And the only way to win a war is to fight. It doesn't happen "just because," there's got to be intention involved- some hard work on our part.

Good thing Jesus went this way before us and gave us the directions to make it.

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world (John 16:33). Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21).

William Booth got it right when he gave his ultimate battlecry:

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight;
While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight;
While men go to prison, in and out, in and out,
as they do now, I'll fight;
While there is a drunkard left,
While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets,
While there remains one dark soul without the light of God,
I'll fight- I'll fight to the very end!

Don't let The Enemy pull you down- stand like the brave with your face to the foe- fight!