The battle is not yours, but God…

Eph. 6:10-11 - Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. (NASB)

The battle is not yours, but God. Therefore, your efforts should not be focused on whose right, whose wrong, who will win, or who will lose. Rather you should focus on what is the message or what am I to learn from this experience. It is not your victory, you are a beautiful instrument that notes are played through, but we are not the musician, God is. Thus, the responsibility of getting it right is not up to us, but God. We struggle too many times trying to get everything so right, so perfect and so ‘my way’, we do not see how we are in our own way and causing our own madness, confusion.  We call God up with prayer, but we are too distracted by our selfishness purpose, we do not hear Him speaking to us, then we are upset He did not answer us, but we did not listen. We create confusion, and guess who is the author of that? We have invited Satan to author our journey by our own design. God forbid!

We cannot hear God, and follow His instruction, if we are only focusing on what we want, how we want it, and when we want it. We cannot see His hand moving in our life, when we are wondering why this person(s) is more right than wrong, wins more than I do, the real questions are - God what is it I should get from having this person in my life, and What are You trying to show me, I  could not have gotten any other way? We are so caught up in the win and lost column of life, we do not even see, the battle is not ours, it is God. When we begin to do so, the outcome changes, and our life is different. In every situation, at every juncture, and for all times, when we allow ourselves to submit to God, not man. It is not about win/lose, or man’s right/wrong, because if we study the book, the Bible, until the end, the deck was stack against us and one would think we lost all because Jesus follow God commands and not succumb to man’s demands; but in the end He wins. …The battle is not your, mind, or ours, but God’s!!!