It's time to quit asking, “Why is life so hard?” and take the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, face it down, set your “face as flint,” as Jesus had to do to fulfill his life’s greatest mission (Isaiah 50:7). There are some things that cannot be endured. The heart of the warrior says, “I will put myself on the line for you. A man in a difficult marriage can persevere only if he finds the warrior inside. A man may have a job he hates under an arrogant boss, but if he sees it as warrior training, he will endure. How much hardship a man will endure, how long and tenaciously he will persevere, is determined by the warrior within him. Your hopes, your dreams, your friendships, your joy-all fiercely opposed. Surely you are aware of this-your life is opposed. God gave you a warrior heart because you were born into a world at war.
Because man is made in the image of God, who is the Great Warrior. Remember as a boy, wanting to be Spider-Man or a Jedi Knight? Every man wants to be strong every man wants to live a powerful life. The firemen who ran up the stairs of the World Trade Center on 9/11 when everyone else was rushing down in panic-what made them do it? The young men who so bravely put themselves between the gunman and their fellow students during those school shootings-what enabled them to do it? The Warrior.
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