Fight the “GOOD” fight.

I read a really great quote today: “We should attempt things so great that they are doomed to failure unless God intervenes” (Henry Blackaby). I think deep down we are all created with an innate sense of adventure. A desire to achieve the acme of life. But we all have an Achilles heel that keeps us from going for the gold. Failure; or more precisely the fear of it. We fear failure and thus we dream of greatness but never attempt to achieve it. Last night I went to bed thinking about 2 Timothy 4:7, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race…” Fight the good fight, that would require us to step out of our comfort zone and step into the realm of (possible) failure. Fighting means that we are to go against the grain, do the opposite of “what everyone’s doing”; to go after greatness. No, I am not talking about money, power, or fame (those are just things), I mean to go after that for which “Christ Jesus took hold of us”. to FIGHT for our purpose, our meaning. We all have a reason for being, a reason to fight. A cause for which we are the advocate. Let us live our purpose so that the end of life we can stand before God and say, “I attempted things so great they were doomed to failure, unless You stepped in… Thanks for stepping in.”

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7).

So what’s the plan? Fight the good fight.