What Are You Fighting For?

At coming to the end of reading Acts and the two letters to the Corinthians, I realise something. I REALLY like Paul.

His life of faith was a passion for him. There is nothing conventional or dull or routine about the way he pursues God. I meet people all the time who want to reduce God to an argument, but for Paul it was risking his entire life in an act of love.

I also meet people who think being a Christian means being nice, and they disguise all the unlovely parts of their lives so that they appear to be smiling, polite and well adjusted.

For Paul, being a Christian meant plunging into confrontations and encounters that engaged his emotions and his thoughts in a great contest against evil and a great venture into holiness.

He was a warrior! He fought WITH the church, side by side against the enemies that came against it.

He fought AGAINST the church too, when people defected from Christ, but in the thick of those battles, he was always, in essence, still fighting FOR the church.

What is the overflow of your heart? Are you in a legitimate fight for something worthwhile or merely looking for a fight because you aren't really in one?