I’ll admit it. I’m a sucker for the first few Die Hard movies. If I’m scrolling through the channels and see one of them playing, I’m probably going to stop scrolling long enough to see how John McClane is doing.
And yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Don’t @ me.
There are numerous things that seem to die hard. Thought patterns, bad habits, wrong beliefs. What’s even harder about killing them is that they weren’t hard to start. No one ever said they were having a hard time thinking negative thoughts, or that they were struggling to get a streak going of how many days in a row they could bite their nails.
The things that are hardest to stop were often the easiest to start, and because they were easy to start, we assume they’ll die easy, too.
But they don’t. They die hard. They are like the final alien monster who always seems to get back up from what you thought was the fatal blow. But here’s the good news: though they may die hard, they will die.
[Tweet “The things that are hardest to stop were often the easiest to start.”]You and I can think newer and truer thoughts. We can replace bad habits with good routines. We can reject wrong beliefs and embrace right ones.
It just requires that we keep fighting. That we throw another punch. That we never stop taking ground until Hans Gruber falls from the Nakatomi building (sorry for the spoiler from a 30+ year-old movie).
You and I are in the fight of our lives for our lives, but we’ve been given weapons that are “not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.” (2 Corinthians 10:4 NASB)
So hang in there. It’s a fight worth fighting, a destiny worth pursuing, and a life worth defending. Even when the enemy seems to die hard.
