Ready to Fight the Good Fight

Oswald Chambers, in his classic, My Utmost for His Highest, in his December 4 entry, wrote on the necessity of war. He is not referring here to taking up arms. He says that things outside of you physically (germs, for example)and spiritually will do you in if you don't fight. He goes on to define morality as fighting these things that will do you in. We usually define morality as sexual.

He defined immorality as failure to fight and overcome the evil that wants to take over your life. This can be any bad habit, wrong relationships, or possibly even wrongs in society. In Scripture, we have to fight for the Truth, because the devil is obviously against everything about Jesus. We have to fight the good fight of faith, because the world in general is against Jesus and Christians. We have to fight the subtle encroachments on our thinking that are all around us, especially in the media, but also in every area of life.

The best place for any of us to start is to fight anything that would come between us and a strong relationship with Jesus. If we fight the evil in society, but neglect fighting the evil in our own personal human nature or let evil take over our households, we have lost a great battle.

We have to fight it all, and we should fight in company with other brothers and sisters in Christ. We have strength and grace from Jesus to be victorious. Praise His Name! Are you ready to fight?