You Gotta Fight

We are never going to win a battle that we are not willing to fight.  I heard Beth Moore say this on Life Today last week and it really struck me.  What in my life is weighing me down that I am not even trying to deal with?  What is it that I am content to just let hang around even though I know that God has something so much better for me?  For a long time I dealt with some insecurity issues (I still do to some extent, but the Lord and I are working on this one).  My mind would tell me how I wasn't good enough or smart enough to accomplish whatever task I was doing at the time.  I had the thoughts of, if people really got to know me would they still like me or do they even like me just knowing me a teensy bit?  I even would doubt my worth to Craig.  I want to be very clear that Craig didn't do anything to cause this thought process, it was just one of those things in my mind that was attacking me like crazy.  The Lord brought me to a place where I could clearly see that this issue was really messing up the thing I had going with Him. I couldn't experience all that He had for me when I was trading the way He views me for the way that Satan wanted me to view myself.  You see, Satan doesn't want us to put up a fight.  If he can keep us thinking that there is nothing we can do about the situation and this is how it is always going to be, he has us just where he wants us.  I was tired of that mess.  I wasn't playing anymore.  Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.  I was ready to fight for my security in Jesus Christ and His thoughts about me. I am really guilty of underestimating what God can do through me.  Like I said earlier, I still struggle to some degree with insecurity, but I remind myself over and over that God thinks I am something special and that's enough to get me through.

Galatians 5:1 says, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."

Maybe your issue is your finances, your marriage, your self-image, etc.  Allow the Lord to give you the courage to fight for your freedom over that horrific place of bondage.  And if He has set your free from an area in your life that you were struggling in, tell Him thank you from the bottom of your heart.  He is so good.  He deserves all the glory; every single bit of it.  Praise you, Father.