Transformed to transform

Change must first begin within a person. A warrior knows that before he can change the world, he must first be changed. He must first be broken into little pieces and be made whole again from the inside out--a restructuring that is non-negotiable so that only what is essential will remain.

A warrior is transformed to transform.

Two things

Bravery and Courage. 

These two are a warrior's code of living. A true warrior never ceases to be brave even when circumstances are against him. He goes beyond his fear or timidity for he knows that he is made with sterner stuff.

He takes courage even in the face of great difficulty because he knows that the battle is the Lord's, not his. He believes that even a great army cannot trample on his mission because the mission has already been accomplished long before when the King said "it is finished"--a warrior only needs to act upon this victory.

We are an army marching to the battlefield on behalf of the Great King's victory.

No way but up!

A true warrior believes that growing up and going up is the only place to go. A warrior is not content with what he has, but he uses what he has to go further, to soar higher, and to dive deeper. Courage, dear warriors!

Faith is a verb!

Have you ever wondered why it's so hard to progress from faith to actually living by it? You see, when faith is just a concept in the head and not a practice of the hand, we tend to discredit the fact that faith should move a person into action. 

And when we don't realize that faith is actually a matter of action and not just of intuition, that it's a matter of practice and not just a hypothesis, that it is doctrine converting itself into discipline--when faith is not like this, then we will remain to be what other people label Christians as apathetic, or worse, delusional. 

We don't want that. So it's now time to walk the talk. And though it couldn't be more true that what it already is, the Gospel gets more real when it gets into people being transformed in real life. When theology meets real life and the message is passed clearly that it's all about hope and the possibility of being new, that's when faith brings impact.

Faith is a verb. And in the Christian language, there's no such thing as passive verb.