Redeem: 6

I hadn't even gotten out of bed,
and I wanted the day to be done.
Couldn't I just roll over, and miss this one?

Battle after battle to be fought,
thing after thing again and again
pouring out steal, discourage, destroy.

I had to get up, had to get out the door,
walking around through my list to-be-done;
my scrappy fists up
my arms frantic long
--as if that could frighten the enemy off

Until God stopped me,
"Are you gonna let me fight it, for you?"
and I remembered--

The Battle is the Lord's

You said that to me once,
to the me-still-jaded but wanting-it-true,
after innocence had been lost;
I looked at you with awe,
had no words to offer, such pure belief.

I liked it about you.
I needed someone to believe it, for me.

That was before I saw the Lord go to war for my free,
but now I can say it too
Not innocent, not jaded, but Weighed and True:

The battle, the battle, the battle belongs
to the One, to the One, to the One.

[I believe it now, for you.]

[redeem, verb: to free from what distresses or harms; to release from blame or debt; to regain possession or recover ownership; 

to convert, restore, atone; to save]