Have you ever been in battle?
Swords raised, banners flashing, an enemy to defeat...the wind behind your back, comrades on your side and a goal that you are all striving towards: rout the enemy and reclaim your lands.
Some might call this season of my life the "sit-around-and-do-nothing" phase. Those who see things only from a human perspective are hoping I get a job, move on with my life, find my way--and I have been tempted to call this season by the same name and doubt myself and often my Lord.
But now I see clearer.
I won't give in and lose my heart--my family is on the brink of finally moving past broken and I won't give up this fight until we can be family again--loving, supportive, loyal toward one another.
Because this is just the beginning of one battle.
Because all our lives each of us is going to go through some heavy stuff--and we need each other.
Because Christ has called us to spread His message and when it is first fully lived out in the home, it's powerful.
Because we have an enemy and he would destroy us--but ha! God has given us each other!
Depression has lately been the invisible weapon the enemy has chosen to try and pull me down. But I turn to the story of Jesus and say that if He could endure the cross, i can endure a few days of hopelessness--after all, that Cross caused the greatest victory of all time...and I know not what waits around the corner for my family! I will not lose hope and I will not lose heart--I am in this battle to see victory come!
Fight on all brave soldiers of the Lord! May your victory come swiftly and your communion with the Lord be sweet. He will never leave you in battle (or in the victory), cry out to Him as ever you have need!
We have overcome.
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