It's my and most likely your natural tendency to want to have everything going right in life. It annoys me that despite my greatest efforts, despite the fact that I love God and serve him to the best of my ability everyday. That my life is far from the picture of perfection. There are issues that I still face, there is still a past that whispers in my ear, there is still sin that tries to infiltrate my life. There is a level I want to go to with God that I don't fully understand how to get to, the constant negotiation tactics of the enemy of my soul trying to keep me from my purpose and settle into a life marked as ordinary Christianity that I so militantly despise, and the constant nagging of my flesh to just let it feast if even for a little while...yes friends I have issues. And you do to...but the Lord said through Paul in 2nd Corinthians 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you. My strength is made perfect in weakness"

Oh how I thank God that it's his strength that gets us through! Not that we wait for God's strength to fall on us and blame God if we don't get it, but as Paul also says "I press on toward the goal of the upward calling of Christ", and he instructs Timothy to "fight the good fight of faith." So we fight...we do our part...we battle everyday. It's what makes us warriors. But in our weakness he's strong. I'm grateful that I don't fight alone, and that victory is assured for those of us who don't loose heart, but endure in our faith. (Hebrews 6:11)

So let me encourage you...fight the good fight of faith again this week. Let not a mountaintop experience end you back down into a valley for the kingdom is designed to go from glory to glory, faith to faith and strength to strength! Keep fighting, you may not win every battle but the end of the war is predetermined! Don't settle for society's version of Christianity. Look to the bible. Look to the gospels and the Epistles...fight for that, and know...in your weakness his strength is made perfect!