The Battle is His

You know life is not always easy. Sometimes it is not anything big either that gets you off track. Sometimes you get down and depressed and you begin to focus on all that life is not, instead of all it is. You wonder where God has gone and why He does not seem to be answering your prayers.

A group of friends and I have begun reading the book, "Life Wide Open" by David Jeremiah. It speaks of living this Christian life with abandon; the act of finding what your passion is and going for it with all your heart and soul.

I was reminded today that in this battle of life, it is not my strength that it will be won. It is in His strength that I will be able to accomplish all He has for me and to live out that passionate, victorious life that He has called me to.

I believe the Lord led me to Judges chapter 6 today to remind me that He is in the fight right beside me and that His strength is all I will ever need.

An angel of the Lord was reminding Gideon that the Lord was with him. 

His reply was "But, sir" Gideon replied, "If the Lord is with us, why has all of this happened to us.? Where are all His wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, "Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the Lord has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midas."

The Lord turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?"

"But Lord, " Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."

The Lord answered, "I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together."

We are not in this fight alone. The pressures I feel from a difficult life right now are far less than what the Lord has already seen me through and delivered me from.