Breakfast For Your Soul

Monday, November 24, 2008

Fight the good fight for the true faith. Hold tightly to the eternal life to which God has called you, which you have confessed so well before many witnesses.

{1 Timothy 6:12 – New Living Translation}

Happy Monday! The HAWK is here!  For those of you who have never experienced the hawk… wow!  It is the type of cold that will make you want to go back in the house… and stay there until spring.  My legs were numb by the time I got to work… only to get here and discover heat distribution issues here in the office!  Brrrrrrrr!  Nevertheless, I made it!  Yea!!!  Some stuff you just gotta fight through.  Giving up should not be an option on some things.  I have found the old adage, “anything good is worth fighting for“, to be true.  We live in a time where life has been simplified for us in a way that can be detrimental to our development if we’re not watchful.  Everyday something is made quicker, easier, faster.. from food to technology.  That can make fighting a difficult concept to accept.  If what we want doesn’t come fast enough (in our own estimation), we can either give up, or become angry, bitter and disillusioned.  Disillusionment can lead to another state of mind …mere existence from day to day.  A good fight for a righteous cause, can build you up mentally, physically and emotionally. Some people have to fight just to get out of bed in the morning.  When they do…. they have won half of the battle.  We all have a battle of some kind going on…the key is knowing we have help. Ever seen a fight where someone thought they had back-up, but when it came time to “put up or shut up”, they were all alone?  That was usually the person who started the fight.  Our God is not like that.  He is there… right in the middle of it all.  Even if you’re in the fire like the three Hebrew boys, in a den of lions like Daniel, on a ship seemingly about to capsize like the disciples, or hungry in the desert like the multitude. Jehovah Shammah…”God is there”.  Whatever our fight, the first step is to ascertain whether this is truly our fight.  Remember, if we submit ourselves to God, and resist the devil he will flee from us… so that is one fight we do not have.  We need to know, that we are not in the battle alone.  Jesus promised that He would never leave us, nor forsake us.

Fighter -1 Timothy 6:12 90 of 103   I heard someone say that a good fight is one you win. In our fight of faith, we can take courage from knowing that God promises that we will win in the end. August 3, 2008

Tye Tribbett “I Want It All Back”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUtJgU7sdd0

Tye Tribbett “Bless The Lord/’Son of Man”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzQuwfoeTx8