When Paul
came to the end of his life, he said in 2 Timothy 4:7, “I have fought the good
fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” And in 1 Timothy
6:12, he tells Timothy, “Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the
eternal life to which you were called.”
Life is war
because the maintenance of our faith and the laying hold of the eternal life we
have is a constant fight. Paul makes clear in 1 Thessalonians 3:5 that the No.
1 target of Satan is faith. If we endure to the end, Jesus said we will be
saved (see Mark 13:13), and Satan is fighting always to bring us to ruin by
destroying our faith.
Concerning
his own life of warfare, Paul said earlier, “I do not run aimlessly; I do not
box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control,
lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified” (1 Corinthians
9:26-27).
Read the entire article here by John Piper.
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