Once More Into The Fray...

     As most of my readers know already, and as I mentioned in my last post, I recently watched a movie that touched me deeper than I could ever communicate to anyone. The movie is called The Grey. It's about a man who has given up on life, who has come to the end of his rope, and wants to end it all... but somehow finds it in himself to keep going. He not only keeps going, but helps 6 others to keep going as well. Most people who have seen the movie find it very depressing and dissatisfying, because the main character seems to live for no reason at all, but I found it to be the most moving, heart-throbbing, captivating movie I've ever seen.
    There's a short poem in this movie that particularly touched my heart. Though the main character in this movie is an atheist, and his father, who wrote this short poem, was an alcoholic, I find this poem to be extremely Christian:

Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I'll ever know
Live and die on this day...
Live and die on this day...

     I've meditated on this piece quite a bit, and I keep finding new, deeper meanings to it. It's so beautiful. And actually, it's incredibly in line with the title and purpose of my blog. As a devoted follower of Christ, I find life, though it is beautiful and wondrous, to be exhausting and trying. To follow the path of salvation through the corruption in which the world has been consumed is the most difficult thing on this earth. 
     Each day I wake up and face the day. Some days are better than others. Each day I find myself saying, "Once more into the fray..." because life IS a constant fight; it's a continuous struggle to push through the mob of sin, of despair, of corruption that tries to envelope us every moment of the day. We are to live in the present, not to dwell on the past or anticipate the future... so each day that I look sin in the face is the last good fight I will ever know, the last push to hold on to God's hand. And each day, there is life and death. Not just in the world, but in me, in you, and in Jesus Christ. The title of my blog is, "He lived to die, so I die to live". Do you see the correlation? When you wake up in the morning, your heart beats for a purpose. God gave you a mission. You are to live. You are to thrive. But you are also to die... to die to your former self, to your sinful tendencies, to the original sin that grasps at your heels each second. A continuous fight. But a rewarding fight.

A seed can not grow unless it first dies. (John 12:24)

I hope this touched you as much as it did me. 

God bless!