Trained

“Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.”  Colossians 2:6-7.

A boxer would never get in the ring to fight without training.  He will lift weights, punch punching bags, run, and spar with a stand in for his opponent, to make sure that when the day comes to fight he will be ready to knock the snot out of his opponent.

We need to train too if we are to be able to defeat the enemy.  Christians face temptations to sin every day.  But we have the ultimate training tool to overcome our opponent.  We have the love of Christ and the Word of God, with which to arm ourselves.  When we step into the ring and dominate, we do so with grateful hearts.