My children like to argue. They argue about everything. My job as a father is to be routinely ticked off about this and make them knock it off. I will not let them grow up to be arguers.
At the same time, certain arguments need to happen and I let them go, I want to see who wins, I want to see their logic and their determination work. Kids who don’t fight about anything are doomed.
But we can’t die on every hill. In fact, why not die for a valley every once in awhile. What’s the big deal with a hill? Most valleys are prettier than hilltops.
Anyway, I digress.
I was talking to a guy who recently attended a funeral and he commented that the best gospel presentations he’s ever heard were at funerals. Even pastors from other denominations and “faiths” spoke good Gospel messages at funerals.
Why all the division during life then?
Because we fight and fight and fight. We stand up for our theories, our self-devised principles, our human wisdom we’ve let creep into our presentations. We die for mole hills, mole hills the moles have left long ago.
Age brings wisdom but it also brings tiredness. I just can’t fight for everything. Many people have tried to start conversations with me about issues I don’t deem to be all that thrilling or vital so I don’t converse. I just don’t. I can’t. I’m too tired.
But I’ll lay it all on the line for issues of the Gospel. for the supremacy of Christ, for the redeeming power of God’s grace, for the Way the Truth and the Life. Paul said, “fight THE fight,” he didn’t say “fight EVERY fight.” There’s only one worth fighting for. Fight it.
Loved this. Thanks!