Are you in the middle of a battle? Are you striving for justice? Does feel like it is an uphill battle? Have you been striving for years to right a wrong? Have you asked God to intervene? Are you willing to accept God’s answer if he says you are fighting the wrong battle?
We fight many battles throughout our lives. For most of us, we believe we are fighting the right battle for the right reason. Sometimes, we have heard the battle cry of others and joined them. At other times, we feel we have been wronged and we choose to strive for retribution.
Our culture is full of battles. Some of them are small skirmishes while others are very large battles that seem to never end. Each side seeks to win. Sometimes there are more than two sides to the battle. It seems everyone has an opinion, everyone wants their voice heard, everyone thinks they are right. However, everyone cannot be right and opposing one another.
Make no mistake about it, there is right and wrong. To know we are on the side of right, we need to pray that God leads us and be willing to hear his answer, even if it doesn’t coincide with our thoughts. When we ask God to take up the battle, we cannot merely ask him to take our side of it, but we must ask that he take up the just cause and show us how we can follow him.
With the plethora of opinions, many of which are posted all over social media, we must continually reach out to God to show us the way. We must relieve ourselves of personal opinion and be open to following God’s direction. We must ask God to remove deceit from us. Being open to hearing God and willing to follow him will ensure we are truly fighting for a just cause.
I pray we all ask God to reveal to us the just cause. I pray we ask him to remove deceit from us. I pray each one of us are willing to follow God, taking up his just cause. Ask God to reveal his just cause. Be willing to follow him. Relieve yourself of your preferences. Take up God’s cause.
Psalm 17:1
Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry;
give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit.
Marty Pressey 