A Fight of Faith

1 TIMOTHY 6:12 NKJV “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”

Many believers in Christ have the mistaken idea that if something is God’s will for them to have that it will just automatically happen without any effort or involvement on their part. Not true! We have a devil to contend with. We have to cooperate with God. We must believe what He says. We must resist doubt and fear. To walk in the fullness of blessing God desires for us, we must fight the good fight of faith. For example, the Israelites had to fight the giants in the land to possess what God said was already theirs. The Promised Land belonged to them already because God had given it to them. But it was still inhabited by others, including giants, who had to be driven out before they could enjoy what was theirs. Standing in faith often involves a struggle because of the contradictory evidences we may experience, so we must hold fast our confession of faith (Hebrews 4:14, 10:23). The devil will try to steal our faith by trying to get us to doubt God’s faithfulness to His Word. We may have to fight with our own logic and perspective. It may tell us it is impossible for things to work out, that God’s Word will not work for us, that we should not expect good things to happen to us. But the plan of God for us is victory through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. We must do whatever it takes to maintain our faith in God. That is the fight we must engage in!