Fight on

I pursued my enemies and overtook them. And I did not turn back until they were consumed. I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet." (Psalms 18: 37 and 38 NASB)

I was meditating on this recently and had a picture of a battle with an enemy of some kind. I fought him to a standstill and left him wounded and exhausted--but, significantly, not dead--just wounded and backed into a corner.

Like the knight in the Monty Python movie The Holy Grail who had his arms and legs hacked off but kept fighting the enemy in my mind came back. He had been pressed back but not defeated.

We need to fight on until the enemy is utterly crushed, unable to rise again but all too often we stop fighting when the enemy lets up the attack. Instead of fighting until the enemy--bet it doubt or fear or joylessness--is crushed utterly we let up when we feel a little better,

Fight on.