Fight
Devotions:
“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” 1 Timothy 6:12 KJV
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:”
2 Timothy 4:7 KJV
There are battles in life to be fought. We have an ultimate goal and it is not just to live a good, comfortable life with plenty of money. If that is your goal then in the end you will have nothing. god has a plan and a direction for your life and just existing is not that plan. If we just float along with the flow and hope for the best, we will not reach the goal that God has for us. We all have a part to play in the bigger picture. A part that will bring eternal rewards.
In the natural, the person that just spends the finances that he has and makes no investment for the future, when the future comes then they will have nothing to provide for them. In the spiritual realm if we just live to experience good life with no though for the future we will end up with nothng in the end. We may make it to heaven but there is so much more to eternity than just making it in. We have the opportunity to invest in heaven. Paul says that he had a course that he fulfilled and finished. We each have a course set by God and as we keep our eyes set on that course end we will be more prone to fight against whatever the enemy throws at us to try to derail us and keep us from finishing. He cannot keep us from heaven once we have received Jesus but he can try to keep us from finishing the course that God has for us. We are significant to God's plan. If we fail God can work around our failure but we will not receive the reward.
Our fight is the fight of faith, to lay hold on eternal life by our believing and confessing what God has done. Our course is to hear what God tells us and believe it and do what He shows us to do. But it is a fight. Be as wise as David. When the enemy attacked David would always ask God, Should I go up to battle and take the enemy. Sometimes God told him to go up a different way than normal but God always gave him the victory. God wants to always to give us the victory, if we will ask He will tell us how to receive it.