You Looking for a fight?

You looking for a fight?

“How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight” – Tyler Durden –Fight Club

Boxing maybe on its way out as a sport but never did a sport ever serve as a better metaphor for life. Some of you and most of us have both been in our share of them. Some of us have just been thrown into them by the life situations we were born into and sometimes because of stands that we take and won’t back off of. On the negative front sometimes we look for fights because we are in a bad place (and don’t know any better) in life over situations that don’t call for it and to people who don’t deserve it.

There is always a fight to be fought. If you were blessed enough to grow in a healthy situation with parents who helped you develop into a well-adjusted and relatively healthy individual. You can feel great with a well-paying job, a good looking spouse and kids and a house.

Some of you were born with alcoholic and emotionally unstable parents. People who were sick and self-consumed that some kids ended up fending for themselves while other kids are playing goofball games. Then there is the abused kid who has seen the reality of evil on multiple levels, and is ready to fight and has that killer instinct; either for themselves or something more.

We all have to fight life on two levels. If you are blessed to have things going well for you on a personal level and you are comfortable then you get to move ahead to the greater causes then yourself. British philanthropist William Wilberforce was independently wealthy at a young age. He could have lived of relative ease but he had a spiritual conversion and realized life was more than his comfort. He got in politics to make a difference. He spent 30 years of his life dedicated to the abolition of slavery in England against a government that resisted.

If you were born with unstable parents who may have been emotionally absent and unable to teach and understand how to raise kids with their own lack of emotional growth and had unrealistic expectations and poor understanding of kids and development who couldn’t lead them or help them or even show them how to find the answers and the hope. That person has to put up the fight of not following that same example and fighting to do the right thing after finding what the right thing is. If you manage to win that fight in your life, you get to get to get back in it and help fight with and for others who are lost and can’t find their way out.

Nobody is in a bigger fight then the abused. The likelihood is that they are bottled up with up knowing the reality of the evil and that the opponent they face and how most people don’t beat it. They are angry and they are hurt and if they don’t get past this opponent it will not hurt them it will destroy their lives. It maybe the stage of the fight of standing up to your abuser and just getting it to the end or it may be at the stages of having to forgive and not be so full of hatred. Even then as beat up and tired as that person is if and when they get past that stage they don’t get to just sit by and rest and celebrate and feel proud. They more than anyone have what is a task very few people get and maybe nobody really wants but is needed; They get to go pursue those people who are going through hell to the point the darkness is crushing them and may feel like it can destroy them any moment and do whatever they can to get them out of it.

If you weren’t born into those situations you will find that life will most likely put you in one of those situations at one point or another. You may work hard and get all you ever dreamed of and feel like coasting and being content and proud of yourself for all you have accomplished. You may have been the most straight laced by the book kid who did nothing wrong and for so long but you are the wayward child now who doesn’t know how to get his life back on track. You may have become a victim through rape or an abusive relationship. You have the unfortunate task of either living in fear now or living in rage and what may have felt like a life of progress before that may feel like you can never get better or get past it. You didn’t expect the comfort, or the feeling lost or excruciating pain but yet there you are.

It’s important to go look for a fight; the right one. You may just have to spend time to get to know where you are and which fight to take and when.

You are not afforded the luxury of standing by and doing nothing. Just because that’s what you have been doing, doesn’t mean you should have been doing it and doesn’t make it ok. You have to get out there and you have to face your own issues and repent of them and change. You then get the task of moving on to causes greater then yourselves; in the lives of others and in causes and epidemics that destroy lives individually and collectively. Jesus gave us the two great commandments of loving God with all your heart soul and mind and loving your neighbor. How would you explain to a father that you cared for him and did nothing to help his hurting children with what he provided you with out of his love for you? Even those of you who claim to be humanitarians without needing God how much do you have to hate somebody to not give what you can of yourself (not of others, you) to help them while they suffer.

It’s good to be healthy and it’s good to be healed and happy but don’t for a second think it’s over as long as you still have breath in you.

“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.” ― John Wesley