Battlefield

Some days my mind is a battlefield (what is the Jordin Sparks song reference here?). I feel like all day long I'm thinking and analyzing and re-thinking and feeling discouraged then hopeful then self-conscious then strengthened. I worry, I plan, then I surrender, and I feel victory.

Some days it's a tiring cycle.

But today I was so thankful for this cycle. Scripture talks about the battle:

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but...against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." (Ephesians 6:12)

There is a war that is going on for my life--a life that follows Christ. And when I feel it, I remember that it's real. I'd rather wage war and get a little bruised than not feel a thing because I forgot to fight. The enemy doesn't want us to fight.

I don't think I am destined for a life full of nothing but tiring warfare. There is JOY because the battle is won! But there is "a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace." (Ecclesiastes 3)

I am waging war in my mind on behalf of the God who created the earth and sky...not a bad assignment.

[Apologies for the very real post...I blame my new Blogger app that lets me write blog posts on my iPhone as I'm laying in bed falling asleep :) ]