My Fight Card

A fight card is a program of boxing consisting of all the boxing matches that take place during a boxing event. Fight cards consist of a main event and an undercard of the rest of the matches.

This morning I woke up with that eerie linginering feeling of disappointment after wasting the morning away sleeping in. But I had a killer session with Insanity and practiced my jabbing. You see training to become a boxer and fight in the ring one day is only a part of this particular journey...it plays as more of a marker than the actual end all destination.

Along the way I am battling all types of low spots in my character that really need some pounding. Obviously my lack of long-term dedication is the prime target here, and the reason I keep this blog... but there are all these other fights within the 'main event'-
discipline, desire, lazyness, determination, self-control, patience, vanity, pride, insecurity, even rationalizing... these are all of my opponents. Sure there is the financial debt, the extra 25lbs I've been carrying around with me, the broken relationships from the past...but these are only the symptoms. My goal is to go head to head with the source.

I consider this time as a real chance to look at my 'fight card'. Certainly I cannot do everything at once but I do have to do what I can to defeat what has blocked me from being all God intended. The enemy has been defeated but he left behind a whole lotta ugly habits that only God's light truly reveal and that can only be made new by Jesus.

Knowing He loves me gives me a purpose no man can give me, nor take a way! And all I want to be is ready for His calling. My thought is this; how in the world can I do what God has called us to do (and do it well) if I stay in the habit of being distracted, being undisciplined, full of desire for things that are not mine to have or to keep, whether I can have them or not! ...Reasoning why I am the way I am so I can stay there, ultimately passing the opportunity to serve and glorify Him completely! Remember we were created by Him, but we were created FOR Him! (from Colossians 1:16)

So as I keep training I also have to keep in mind what this is really all about. Faith, Determination, Perserverance. One thing at a time; my fightcard is full... but I'm in it to go the distance!