The Fight in a Man

You will often hear coaches, fight trainers, and motivational speakers alike use the phrase; “It’s not the man in the fight but it’s the fight in the man.” We as Christians can find a lot of truth in this statement as we go through our spiritual lives. We will all face spiritual fights as we go through our lives and we need to be prepared to take them on and overcome them. Let’s look at life as a fight. We train for this fight before we are buried in baptism and become a child of God. We must learn what we need to win the fight of life. Granted we won’t learn everything in training. Some things we won’t figure out till after we’ve been in the fight a few rounds and we have seen what our opponent has to throw at us. However, we do learn the basic things we need to win in training so that we will have a firm foundation and not wavier when we take shots from our opponent. Now as we train we aren’t going to jump right in and know everything. We must learn to walk before we can run so to speak. We must listen to those who have been in the fight for a while because they know the lumps that we will take. Proverbs 12:1 “Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.” We must learn from our mistakes in training so we will hopefully be less likely to make them when we start the fight. Our spiritual fight begins the moment we come out of the watery grave of baptism. It is from then on that we must begin to try to bring others to Christ and his word. No one said the fight would be an easy one, few fights are, but with our Heavenly Father in our corner we can know that we will always be able to get back up whenever we fall. Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." We must know though, that once we start this fight there is no turning back and no throwing in the towel. 2 Peter 2:21 "For it has been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." When we start this fight we must go 100% every round. Of course we will get tired and at times it may seem that no matter what we do we cannot win. Our opponent will often times seem to fierce for us to be able to take on. But we must always remember Romans 8:31 "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" With the Lord on our side, no opponent, great or small, can bring us down. We will fight day in and day out because we know that when the final bell sounds and the fight is over we may not be champion of the world but, we can know that we will receive a much greater prize. A prize that only our Lord can give us. Matthew 16:27 "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works."

"Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?" -Rocky Marciano. Don't dance with the devil. You have the tools(the Word, fellow Christians, and prayer) to fight off temptations and Win the Fight.

-Ben Stevenson