Ready for Battle
Have you ever had one of those weeks where you felt like you were on a roller coaster and right when you thought you were going to hit the bottom and head back up again someone opens a trap door and you keep heading down lower than you thought you could go? Well this last week or so has been like that.
However last night I had a conversation with a friend and while I did not necessarily realize it when we were talking, God was using the conversation and that person’s friendship to work through me. Then we had our link group together. We had dinner well really breakfast and just hung out it was a lot of fun. I am excited about this group as I think we are all going to become great friends.
When I got home I did what I do a lot of nights I watched the West Wing in reruns on Bravo from 11-12. It was here that something strange happened. As I watched the show, one I had seen before, and as I reflected on my nights activities and my conversation with Leslie, the friend I mentioned earlier I began to really relax more than I had in awhile then it was the scene at the end of the show that put things together and I got energized more than I have been in a while.
I’ll set the scene for you - the President and his staff are welcoming the new Congress after the Midterms and his chief rival has hired a new Chief of Staff named Ann. Basically what they thought would be a nice bi-partisan event is not and because they were not ready Ann detroys them. The President and his staff look bad and the last scene has Toby-Director of Communications and Leo-Chief of Staff alone together in the Oval Office.
After a few moments of them being down Toby says “They are coming for us, They are really coming” Leo is like I know but we are so far from the election do we have to do this now. Then Toby says something like “They have hired a Wartime Counciliary in Ann” Then is the part that I keep playing over and over again in my mind this morning because Leo’s demeanor changes from down to ready to fight and he says “I am a Wartime Counciliary” Then Leo says “I just thought it might be peacetime a little longer” Then after saying an expletive Leo stands up and tells Toby to stand up and to shake his hand as he says “We just formed the Committee to elect the President.” They both realize that they have to fight now whether they want to or not. What started as a down moment turns into one of the most powerful scenes the show has had.
All of a sudden the fire went back into my soul and the fear of anything went away. It was like, no it was God saying get off the mat and fight and I will not let anything happen to you.
I realized that I was not trusting God and that I was allowing things in my life to get in the way of loving Him and serving Him and loving people as well. I realized that all my down moments recently was because I was not listening to God and what He wanted for me at this time. He was saying to me that no matter how bad you might want to relax that it is not peacetime anymore and that you a wartime counciliary and it is time to follow Me and trust Me. He was telling me to trust Him when he says that He is always with me and that He will give me nothing that with Him I can’t handle. I realized that I was not created to just live and have fun but that I was created to serve Him and to follow Him and to allow Him to use me to lead others to Him.
Well I know things might not be easy and there will be hurdles but I feel for the first time in a long time the fire and the fight back in me. I know that I will need to stay focused on God and His word but this excites me.
Now I don’t know what the future holds but I really don’t care anymore as long as God is there with me holding me. Its like that one song that says sometimes He calms the storm and sometimes He calms His child. Well the storm has not gone away but right now I am very calm.