Lion and Lambs

With my illness changing my life so drastically these last couple of years, I have been fighting desperately to control it, to make it go away, so I can get my life back. As anyone with a chronic illness knows, it is futile.

The letter to the editor in latest edition of HopeKeepers Magazine addressed this very issue. She was explaining that we don’t have to be obsessed with fighting our battles, we simply have to face them. She referenced 2 Chron 20:12

…For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

There are many places in the Bible where the kings and warriors were facing battles for which they lacked the strength needed for victory, and yet each time that they focused on and followed God, they overcame. The fight is His, whether it is on a battlefield or in our life, and we need to let Him be in control.

Thus my resolution:
stop being obsessed with the fight…just face and focus;
to boast in my weakness according to 2 Cor 12:9

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. NIV

and to glory in the Cross that made all this possible.