Hard Fought Hallelujah 

I wasn’t going to do a Testimony Tuesday today. I was going to let the song I posted speak for me. As I’m listening to more Christian music; to find more songs to speak for me, I found Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll singing Hard Fought Hallelujah. This is my new favorite song. 

As for me and my house, my path to Christ has been filled with spikes, valleys, boulders, and pebbles that get stuck in my shoe. You know that feeling when you have on flip flops but you have to take the stupid thing off to get a pebble out. You would think that just by shaking your foot you could get it out? You’d be wrong. 

Some of the lyrics: ‘I’ll bring my storm-tossed, torn-sail

Story to tell hallelujah

God, You’ve been patient

God, You’ve been gracious’

There’s days when a praise comes out easy

And days when it takes all the strength I’ve got’. 

YES! This is my song. Hard fought hallelujah! Somedays the praise comes easy. Somedays it takes all the strength I’ve got. But YES! God has been patient with me.

I feel like a lot of people look at Christians and maybe even other Christians that Christianity and faith is a walk through Candy Land and we are all sucking on lollipops while the sky is raining Skittles from marshmallow clouds. And Jesus is tossing prayers like a Pezz Dispenser. If this defines your walk with Christ. Great. It doesn’t define mine. Satan is in a constant battle for the Christian soul. Well all of them honestly. We war every day with sin. It is a hard fought hallelujah. God has been gracious! God has been patient while each time I bring my sorry, tear stained soul back to him. 

My hard fought hallelujahs are different from yours. And that’s great. My walk to and with Christ is different from yours. And that’s great too. 

So there’s a controversy among Christians about this song. My human brain landed on because they cuss. But that’s not the issue. I’ve listed a link to that below as well. 

Do you have hard fought hallelujahs? Do you have days that it seems like you are hanging on to your faith by your fingernails? Are there days you feel like Satan has ground you under his shoe? God, You’ve been patient. God, You’ve been gracious.

Faithful whatever I’m feeling or facing.

So I’ll bring my hard-fought, heartfelt,

It is well hallelujahs to God all day long. 

Roman’s 3:23 “23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.” NLT

If you wish to listen to the song:

The division:

I don’t want to know where you land on this topic. I’m only sharing.