What kind of war are you fighting?

What does your war look like?

Are your hands full of fists, and are your fingernails dug in deep? 

Does it rage from dusk til' dawn?

Does it lay you down to sleep?

Is yours a war of words? 

of lies? 

of pain?

Is it all?  

Is it nothing?  

Could you call it by it's name?

The battle is in all of us

but we are all so full of us

and it's so hard to not be ruled by this

(sometimes I feel like I'm new at this...)

but I will call it by it's name, 

and I suggest you do the same-

The war within us seeks to destroy us, and there is an enemy who wishes to devour us- the life within us, the life HE gave us, he seeks to deceive and take us from the One who paid for us!  

We are not blameless...

but we are not nameless...

His image is upon us, and we must take this!

Don't look around at others wounds and assume they've been consumed.

Don't look around at others pain and maintain that they're unchanged.

Don't look around at others victory march through a lens of despair and miss the scars..

sometimes that battle has JUST been won and you can't see how long they've warred.  

So, what kind of war are you fighting?

and what are you fighting for?

Drop your weapons and surrender-

your strength comes from the Lord

We will stop!

We will rest..

and we will lift up our eyes...

and behold the One who goes before us...

and in His shadow we will abide.

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Hope.
What is hope?

Is it present?

No, hope is the expectancy of what is to come. The very nature of it implies that it has not yet come. In order to hope, you must have faith.

Faith.
What is faith?
Faith is the belief in what cannot be seen, and often times, in the impossible.  
Is faith complete?
No, like hope, faith implies that it is to be "waited" upon.

Faith and hope are not tangible. By their very nature they cannot be disected and looked too closely upon, because trust cannot be understood as a perfect equation..and trust is what they are built upon.

Trust.
Where does trust come from?
It comes from knowing that the intentions behind a thing are GOOD...that the purpose behind a thing is GOOD...and where does goodness come from?

Love.

And where does love come from?
God.

And what is love?
God Himself.

God is love and therefore His purposes and intentions are good so we can trust Him. Once we trust Him, we can have faith to believe the impossible. Once we have faith in the impossible, we are filled with hope, and once we are filled with hope...we are free!