It’s a scene in every war movie ever made. The one where the knights or soldiers say goodbye to the familiar, to their families, to their lives and walk out the front door to face the unknown and death. With their packs slung over their shoulders they mount up and head out to fight the veil enemy.
It’s a feeling often-found in airports and at dinning room tables that of leaving friend and family. The feeling that both causes ones heart to sing and to weep simultaneously.
It’s the feeling we should get in churches; it’s the scene we should see in our lives. The feeling of going out to fight the war, the scene of loving God more than family or friends. Whether it means leaving for far lands or meeting friends in coffee shops and behind white picket fences doesn’t matter. For Christianity is a fight to believe and fight to kill sin and a fight to grow.
Christianity is a war. To be Christian is to be at war. Thus it is a struggle and a fight to simply have faith that you were/are/will be redeemed. This is not easy-believism, this is no cakewalk, this is surely not a continually ball of fun. It’s raw, it’s wearing, it’s tiresome and, quite frankly, it hurts. But, it’s worth it. It’s worth it because, “There is a Redeemer, Jesus God’s own Son; precious Lamb of God Messiah… Hope for sinners…”
It's worth it to know Jesus and enjoy Him more than the paltry fleeting pleasures of sin. It's worth it to have one simple thing to live for. It's worth it to be a "sell-out" to who you were for who he is. It is worth it to be passionate about a singular all-encompassing purpose. "To live is Christ."
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