The fight of a lifetime is a fight for a lifetime. You were  born with the potential to be a warrior, but not just any kind of warrior. You were born to be a Mutuality Warrior whose fighting has personal and social redeeming value.

This fight begins even while a person is still in fhe embroyonic womb-bound state and continues until he is ready for the tomb. Parents, surrogate parents and a list that includes, teachers, ministers, policemen the system and multi-systems, and nearly everyone who has been forced to be somebody else insists on making you conform to his expectations for you and his image, rather than the image of God in which you were created. This is a hard fight. One which you cannot take a vacation from or surrender to. The alternative is harder, more costly during a lifetime and beyond mortal existence. For the fighter there are higher compensations than this world can offer. So what more honorable endeavor can a person give his time, energy and make a commitment to, than to fight the good fight, to fight against evil?

Listen to Aposle Paul explain what it cost him to fight the "good fight." Of his experiences in figfhting the good fight, he recounts: "{I have been in} 23...prison more frequently, I have been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. 24Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes minus one. 25Three times I  was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, 26I have been constantly on the move, I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at the sea, and in danger from false brothers. 27I labored and toil and have often  gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. 28Besides everything else, I have daily the pressure of my concern for all the ekklessia (called--out-ones)." 2Corinthians 11:23-28

When Paul reached the furthest reach of his eschatological mortal life he said "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2Tim. 4:7

Take notice of Paul's many achievements that he could have mentioned as being significant. Most important in his accomplishments he said, "I have fought a good fight." He did not say, I have been a missionary, writer (including writing the greatest love letter ever written), defender of the faith, etc.

What a marvelous epitaph to have on one's tombstone, "I have fought a good fight." O Mutuality Warrior you were born to fight. Embracing responsibility and being embued with faith, hope and love, you have everything you need to fight the good fight and be creative, courageous and victorious.

At the end of each day let your affirmatrion be "I have fought a good fight." Or, announce privately, in these words of Joe Louis, the world's greatest heavyweight fighter, who being asked after winning a fight "What do you have to say?" he replied, "I'm glad I won!" You'll be glad you won and the world will be glad that you fought a good figfht. Be fully persuaded that to win you got to fight.

Copyright  2013 by Uriah J. Fields