Fight The Good Fight

January 24, 2017 | By Chuck

"Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith."(I Tim.1:18-19) Yes, you are reading Paul's words correctly, he is encouraging Timothy to fight. Our world today is very familiar with the term fight. We've seen riots over skin color and fighting over political views. Unfortunately, these fights and nearly all of the fights the news media broadcasts are not good fights. As outlandish as that sounds, there is a good fight and it's the fight that Paul encouraged Timothy then and Christians today to fight. Paul told Timothy to "fight the good fight, holding on to faith and a good conscience". The good fight that Timothy was expected to engage in and we are expected to participate in today is the fight for faith. Life throws all sorts of tragic circumstances and sinful temptations at us and we Christians must fight off all negatives and maintain our faith. The whole point in fighting the good fight is to hold on to your faith in God. Many have yielded to temptation and quit in the face of adversity only to shipwreck their faith. Brothers and sisters we don't need to fight all these fights the world continues to engage in and promote. But, we must see the necessity of fighting the good fight for our faithfulness to God and we better fight hard.