Thoughts.

"We will fight for You!

We will die for You!

We will go for You!"

As christians, we always wanna "go" somewhere for Jesus. Some sort of injustice in the world stirs our hearts and compels us to want to go and do something about it. Sometimes we really will go, a lot of other times, we won't. What happens, that I see a lot, is that we "go" based off of an emotional pain we feel in our hearts. This isn't a bad thing, necessarily, but when we do go, are we bringing God's love, justice and mercy to the dark and broken of the world, or our own? Are we simply "going" so that we can again sleep peacefully at night after we return, feeling satisfied that we've "done all we can do"? Are we changing the world, changing hearts, by "going"? Are people experiencing God's LOVE by merely being in our presence?

I like the order that the song quoted above puts its last three lines. It really does pinpoint two very key things to do before we "go". We will fight for God, we will die for God, THEN we will go for Him.

We must learn to fight for our Love before we're able to die for Him. We aren't ready to go for God until we're willing to die for Him. Before we simply go, we should first fight for Him in our every day lives. Letting nothing come between us and Him. Before we go, we must die to ourselves daily, starting right now. We need to be willing and ready to literally die for Him. After this, we will be able to go. We will be able to love, with His love. We will be able to change lives. We'll be able to witness God restoring freedom, healing and LIFE through us!

The only way the world will have an encounter with Love Himself is if we're madly in love with Him first - always fighting for Him and ready to die for Him - and we bring His love to everyone else.

Let us be filled with Him until we're overflowing out and onto the world.

--Peace and Love.