Warrior-Heart

“For years all my daily energy was spent trying to beat the trials in my life and arrange for a little pleasure. My weeks were wasted away either striving or indulging. I was a mercenary. A mercenary fights for pay, for his own benefit; his life is devoted to himself. ‘The quality of a true warrior,’ says Bly, ‘is that he is in service to a purpose greater than himself; that is, to a transcendent cause.’ …that is the secret of the warrior-heart of Jesus.”
~John Eldredge