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.