Saturday I was watching my college’s football team play. It worked out great that my MBA classes ended as the game was slated to start. I got home, talked to our friend who’d been babysitting, then rushed into workout clothes and hopped on the treadmill. We were ahead, and the first quarter and a half were fun to watch.
Then the other team figured out how to decimate us. It was ugly!
What should have been a close game became a disaster.
Doesn’t life feel that way sometimes?
Things are going along well. Life may not be perfect, but it’s not a disaster. Then all of a sudden we’re getting hit left and right by a team that seems determined to wipe us out. Here are a few reminders and encouragements if this is where you are right now.
- Our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world. Ephesians 6:12
- No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 54:17
- The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. Exodus 14:14
- When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. Isaiah 43:2
- We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. II Corinthians 10:4
So whether it’s one game that’s going terribly or a season of life that’s beating you down, no that God is for you and ready to fight on your behalf.
What scriptures do you pull out when you’re in the midst of a battle?