The Good Fight

2 Tim. 4:7 "I have fought the good fight. I have run the race that is set before me."

We all are born with a deficit that will haunt us until we address it. So we each have a different fight that we have to fight. We each have a different race that is set before us.

 Some will struggle with over-giving, some with over-achieving, some with over-identifying with their feelings, some with struggling with a sense of scarcity, with a sense of fear, with a need for over-stimulation, some with control, or lack thereof.

These are the places we find our identity; initially it is anywhere but God. And when we turn and face our deficit, it feels like death. And it is death.

So fighting the good fight means that we have experienced death and know that there is life on the other side. Fighting the good fight means that the next time we experience death (and there will be many) we still hate it and we still hurt and we still feel helpless, but we do so with a knowing that we can tap into Life at any point and Life will still be there, regardless of circumstances.

So fighting the good fight means we have wrestled death and we have pinned it and we are freed from identifying with identities that are too small for a life that keeps on growing.

There is something exhilarating about that.