Fight a Good Fight!

1 Timothy 6:11-12

But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 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.

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Faith is a fight! It is not thing which you will get directly from God or straight away after you have believed. In fact the journey of faith begins since the point of our salvation, it is just a beginning.

Over here Paul actually taught Timothy to fight the good fight of faith, means we should fight for it, we may have struggles, we may have moments of faithlessness, we have moments of difficulties and disbeliefs. Despite all these things, we must fight the good fight of faith, so that our enemies (Satan) will not have victory over us because God is already in victory!

There are a few aspects that you need to fight for (verse 11):
1) Righteousness
2) Godliness
3) Faith
4) Love
5) Patience
6) Gentleness
7) Self-control, etc

It is an irony but a truth that your faith can only be seen when you go through faithless moments. Your strength can only be seen when you are weak. Same applies for those things which we should fight for.

You can only be more righteous after you went through moments when you can choose not to be righteous;
You can only be more godly after you went through moments when you can choose not to be godly;
You can only be more faithful after you went through moments when you can choose not to be faithful;
You can only be more loving after you went through moments when you can choose not to be love;
You can only be more patient after you went through moments when you can choose to be impatient;
You can only be more gentle after you went through moments when you can choose to be not gentle;

Let's fight for them, and after those crisis and critical moments, I believe we will all get stronger and stronger and continue to serve in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!