Who Are You Fighting?

1 Peter 3:11 says – let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. Everybody wants peace. But if you want peace, you have to fight. And you also have to surrender. And everyone actually is fighting. And everyone actually is surrendering.

Now, what exactly do I mean?

Well, you see, seeking God’s peace involves turning away from evil. If you’re going to pursue God’s peace, it means that you do good by fighting against your sin, and giving up your war against God. You give up your fight with God, and take up your fight against sin.

Everybody is at war, with God, or with sin. Everybody is surrendering, to their sin, or to God. Of course, a lot of people don’t think they are at war with God. They have just surrendered to themselves, and their sin. But even when you’ve just given up, you are passively fighting, rebelling against God.

You’ll either surrender to God, or surrender to your sin. Surrendering to your sin, to yourself, means that you’re still at war with God. This is the truth. You are either fighting against sin, or you are fighting against God. 

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