Several weeks ago… a spiritual discipline with sisters… challenged us to ask God His designation for us… or in a sense… what His name is for us…
This was not a new discipline for me… I’ve done it before… twice I’ve received parts of His designation for me… He continues to speak these two names when I ask Him what He calls me…
But this last time… He added a third… Fighter…
And I thought it was odd when I heard it… but… I shared it with sisters… a couple nodded and said… Yes… I see that in you… they explained a bit… but I still wasn’t sure it was me…
Over the last couple of days… I’ve had a bit of a revelation concerning this designation…
What I see is… I’m a heart-fighter… I fight my own heart… the part still ruled by the flesh…
I fight unbelief… selfishness… envy… complacency… self-indulgence… pride… arrogance… etc… etc…
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Jeremiah 17:9 ESV
I certainly don’t…! He says I have a new heart… He calls me a new creation… but like a headless snake thrashing… my deceitful heart of flesh still makes itself known…
So… Yes… if He calls me a fighter… I guess it’s true… I mostly fight myself…
Looking at loved ones around me… ones with new hearts… but thrashing old hearts… I see them… not fighting…
I see them being deceived… so I pray they would fight…
Fight against the old… and for the new…
What about you…? Have you had any good heart-fights lately…?
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