the battle within

‎"For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ." 2 Corinthians 10:4-5

My mind has a hard time wrapping around the idea of this great battle we are fighting, and maybe because it is far greater a battle than I can truly see. I find myself wanting to fight with my own strength and its impossible. It is a battle that we have to submit to our own will and follow Christ in his triumphant Glory to admit that I can't do it on my own!

Well, I admit my pride in my own self doing. And I admit when that happens...I truly find myself longing and wanting more of Him. The knowledge that I am desperately dependent on Him. Not on my own strength...and that the task at hand, won't be conquered because I was "strong" enough, but because he is strong within me.