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Fight Up
Take fighting. To become a better fighter, you fight. Then you become stronger. If your enemies are stronger, you don’t challenge them at the start. You train. To safely get better at fighting you train with a friend. You regularly fight someone who (1) is more powerful and wise and (2) doesn’t want to kill you. You get better at fighting by fighting up. This concept applies to a whole lot. Take my mom. She has a trained eye for when I’m well. She also knows more than me about wellness and nutrition. Once I visited her and we talked in her kitchen. The conversation went something like this: “You look tired. Are you tired?” mom said. “Yeah, I’m tired.” I said. “Have you been sleeping and eating well?” mom said. “Nope.” I said. We looked at each other. I wasn’t going to lie by saying I’d change. She knew I was hearing truth. It was now in my court. “Good talk.” I said. I was done looking into my flaws in that moment, but the tension led to my decision of eating healthier and sleeping more regularly the next week. That week I could feel the difference in my steps. Now take God. He is an expert in all. His characteristics define the edges of the spectrum. When we fight God we always lose. We don’t fight to change God. We fight to change ourselves. He’s more powerful, but he wants what is best for us. When you are furious, when you are stressed, when you are confused, when you are racked to the point of physical violence: the place that’s always safe to fight is before God.
