Willing to Fight

 I woke up today feeling like I'm in a TobyMac video...one for his song The Elements...sigh...

Looking at the current state of our beloved nation brings worry, fear and hopelessness to many.  It is easy to feel disheartened.  Confusion is in the air.  The future seems bleak.  It is easy to feel as if we are totally exposed to the elements...naked...enduring these elements that threaten to destroy everything that we are...everything we believe in...distorting the truth...crushing our faith.  How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones from what we sense is coming?

We know how: we must cling to Our God tighter than ever before.

Unlike the Israelites from old, whom after King David, kept going through a succession of kings that pushed them farther and farther and farther away from The Lord, we must walk closer and closer and closer still to Him, Who is Our Only Hope.  Hope in He Who IS Hope will never disappoint...will never leave us wanting.  Like my devotional reading says:  "Hope is like a golden cord connecting you to heaven." (Jesus Calling by Sarah Young)  In our weakness and despair, that golden cord needs to become thicker and ever stronger, for we are not of this world; therefore, we cannot allow this world to swallow us up.

Today we don't lose hope.  Today, we fight the elements as warriors in the Lord's Army...the one that has already achieved Victory!  And like the song says: 

"Stand up and rise to these elements. I'm willing to fight, willing to fight" willing to fight as long as it is by Your side, Lord.  Allow me to remain on Your side.  Give Your children open eyes to see what we are up against, and give us what we need to fight it with You covering all our flanks.  You go before me...let me be in your army.  I'm willing to fight!  In the Precious Name of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ Our Only King.  Amen!