Fight the Good Fight

Often times I wonder why we fight battles we know we can never win. In Les Miserables, the students clearly are outmatched. And not the kind of outmatched like a football game in which they could fight hard enough and pull out a narrow victory. Neigh, they will die. It is strictly impossible for them to win. 
So why do they fight? 

John Lennon, a known non-fighter, did not fight wars, or poverty. He did not strive to eliminate death or evil. However, he did devote his life to the fight for peace, and about this he said "You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."
He knew the costs of his war, yet he fought. Sometimes, you fight to lose, because without the will to win, you have nothing. 

e. e. cummings said "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." 
We choose to strive for our goals, not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Because we can never succeed fully, we fight day by day. Our lives will be a great battle, and every day we will be outmatched. But do we give up hope? 
If we surrender and choose to ignore the war, we allow it to crush us, and we truly have nothing. 
1 Timothy 6:12 "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." 
Our fight is unlike the fight for peace, the students' fight against the French government in Les Mis, and the fight to be yourself. 
As Christians, our war on earth is bleak and seems hopeless, but we do not give up because in the end, we will have victory. 

"Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and all eyes will see Him, even those who pierced Him." 
Revelation 1:7 

Cheers & God bless, 
Austin