The Battle

I recently finished a book series. After finishing this series, I felt an actual sense of relief. Not because I didn't like the series, on the contrary --  I had been so thoroughly engrossed in the books that every failure, success, and trial that the hero went through seemed almost to me as if it was really happening. When after all their struggle, pain, loss and suffering, they finally reached their goal and stopped the villain, I felt relieved that they no longer had to suffer for the present. But alas, it was just a book. That kind of stuff doesn't really happen...right?

Wrong! We live in our own story and we fight our own battles against the greatest villain ever known. Sometimes he sends a curve ball our way and disrupts our work in ways that you can't even imagine until you are deep in the throes and all seems hopeless.

Yet, just as we have the greatest enemy in the world that fights against us, we have the greatest ally known to man that fights for us! We cannot fight this battle alone. No one can. In Christ ALONE my hope is found. He defeats the enemy for us! 

When all the struggle is over, we can look back at all the failures, successes, and trials and know that they hold no power over us. We can feel relief. 

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

I Corinthians 10:13

-Caitlyn Dillhoff