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Scripture
One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you. Joshua 23:10

Observation
Life is not a shuffle, it’s a fight, so we cannot approach it with halfheartedness. We must fight to win, for the Lord and his cause matters. This fighting spirit should infuse everything that we do.

But if we could view our day from God’s point of view we would quickly see that we are not alone in this effort of living. There are unseen angels. There is the gust of the Holy Spirit blowing behind what we do. Overarching all is our Father, so secure in his power that he need not fight at all.

Application
The greatest reassurance to me today is that this fight is not up to me. I am responsible to fight in the zone God has chosen for me. I am charged to throw my whole heart into the fray. But really the pack behind my punch is from Christ.

Prayer
Father, there is a part of me that retracts from the fight. Sometimes it is reluctance. Sometimes it is laziness. Sometimes it is the feeling of being overwhelmed. Sometimes I prefer peacemaking. But I wrap myself with the promise today that you are working through me to fight. I give you my sword. Use me. Amen.