Christians should delight in fighting and they should fight with delight. We should use delight as a weapon by which we wage war and we should fight the good fight to delight in goodness.
Psalm 37:3-4
Trust in the LORD, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
When we win the fight of delight on the home front, we find ourselves delighted in God. We fight off false gods for the sake of elevating His renown in our known jurisdiction. As we do this, we grow in delight for Him and as we find ourselves more delighted in Him, we find ourselves free to delight in everything else.
Contentment is a weapon. When we delight in God, we are content with whatever else we have or don't happen to have. Contentment is a side effect of delighting first in God. When we desire Him above all things, we find our desires fulfilled completely. He is happy to give Himself to us. We find our desires growing for Him alone and we discover Him graciously giving more of Himself than we ever dreamed possible. He goes above and beyond, exceeding expectations.
The fight is to delight in Him. When we do, we find ourselves fulfilled. And once content, we use the delight of being delighted to fight off false messiahs and comfauxters.
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