Notice what this does verse does not say. It does not say fight the good fight for faith; instead, it says fight the good fight of faith. There is a huge difference. Most Christians spend their days fighting to believe, but the truth is, we are called to fight from believing. We fight with faith, not toward faith. Our fight of faith is from a place of resting in our Union with Christ. We spend so much of our time living toward something, when we should be living from something. We are in Christ, and everything he is, we have. As I’ve said before, we are not called to fight for a place of victory, favor, and anointing, from which we can live; instead, we are born again into a place of victory, favor, and anointing, from which we can fight. This truth is one of the most important things you will ever learn, and will totally transform the way you live the Christian life. Faith is not something we do to get God to do something back to us; faith is what happens to us when we realize what God has already done for us. We fight the good fight of faith. We fight with our faith, not for our faith. If it is true, according to Colossians 2: 9–10, that we have been made complete in Christ, then we live from fullness and completion, not toward it.