Love is a battlefield….

 The Lord has been teaching me so much lately about loving others, loving our friends, loving our family, loving our co-workers, loving our teammates, loving the nations. In the past few months there have been times where loving people doesn’t come easy, it seems like a fight to love them in the midst of an argument. Can anyone relate to this? If you can relate to this, keep reading and see what God taught me through a song….

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Through this song the Lord spoke so so much to me about love. Why does love feel like a battlefield? Because love is a battlefield. Love is something that needs to be fought for, you have to fight really hard sometimes for love. Jesus fought for love every day of his life. He fought for each one of us, fought for people who despised him, fought for people who hated him, fought for people who nailed him to a cross, fought for people who didn’t deserve a second glance from him…Jesus FOUGHT for love. He believed in love and he fought for it out on the battlefield of this world. Jesus also surrendered himself to the love he fought so hard for, and in his surrender he was actually fighting harder then ever. Jesus did not surrender in the ways in which we view surrendering…he still believed and spoke in truth, never changing who he was or what he knew to be truth, but he surrendered his own life that day on the cross…and in his surrender was his greatest fight for love. Loving people in this world that have or are hurting us is going to be a fight out here on this battlefield of life.

Fight for your relationships, fight for love, fight hard when you feel torn down from people’s words or their actions, fight for the love and hearts of your family members and friends, fight when the arms of the one you want so badly to hold you push you away time and time again, fight for the love you can’t see, fight for the love that you feel will never be returned to you, fight for the love that you don’t always understand, you ask God why? FIGHT for THAT love, fight for a love you believe in with all your heart because you believe in Jesus Christ and you KNOW that he loves them more than you could ever imagine, fight for the love you are crushed by time and time again, but you are not in despair, fight for a love in which you feel persecuted but you are NOT abandoned in, fight for love out here on this battlefield through the tears and the sweat…fight hard, fight for love in your words of truth, fight for that relationship with all your might through your prayers, fight hard for the love in your life that seems to struggle at every turn, do not loose heart. Just as Jesus knew not everyone would fall to their knees in love for him and understand his purpose and calling here on earth, do not expect the same from those around you….love them anyway. Love them when they don’t understand you, love them when they speak death over your life, love them when your heart is breaking, love them when you are weak and feel you have nothing else to give. It is in your time of weakness you will truly find where your strength comes from.

Don’t give up on the relationships in your life. Fight hard for them. Fight for love on this battlefield. Surrender your pride, surrender your own justifications you keep repeating to yourself on why you just cant love this person in your life, surrender your self righteousness, surrender the way you think it should have gone, should have played out, surrender the ways in which you feel you should have been supported, the way you feel you should have been loved. Surrender your expectations and rights you feel you have. Surrender them in the same way Jesus surrendered his own life, while fighting for the greatest love of all, a love that comes from nothing of yourself, only in your surrender will you only have the love of Jesus Christ to love them with.

Did you know that when a bone breaks, it is strongest then at the place where it was once broken. In your life you will go through things and relationships you think will break you….looking back you will see that is where the Lord will grow you strong. Your broken heart will be mended back together by Christ in all his goodness and faithfulness, more full and strong then ever before.

Go and get your amour and get on that battlefield. Fight for love. Read 2 Corinthians 4.