The Fair Fight

A fight or an argument can test our relationships, but if we put everything we have discussed to practice through this series, we will be able to navigate through those tumultuous times of life. Yet the struggle we will face is the pull of the old life and those old ways of doing things that do nothing for healthy relationships. The ways of the old life are self-serving, they are only focused on one’s own happiness. They are consumed with vanity and self-gratification.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. (Ephesians 4:17–19)
Within the philosophy of the old life, there is no communicating heart, there is no sacrifice or discipline, there is no listening ear, and there is no disciplined tongue. When you begin to feel the tension due to the slowing down of the flow of information, you will feel a tremendous pull to revert to these old self-serving and self-satisfying ways. The flesh does not want to fight fair. It craves destruction. It has only one desire, to win, and see the others gravel at its feet. But as the family of God, we should be better than this. We should be able to fight fair. The fair fight entails using every facet we have examined through this series, which are only accomplished by two very simple things.