Are You A Champion?

Jude 1:3 KJV

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

In feudal days a knight was not a champion due to a successful joust.  He was a champion because he stood for something. He had a cause.

Those causes were usually of two types: political or religious. The most famous if all knights were the Crusaders, then later the Knights Templar. Their cause was a religious quest to conquer and protect the Holy Land.

Other knights fought for the honor of a King, Queen, or other political figure. They were the King's (Queen's, etc.) Champion.

So I find it odd that some of the very people who say, "You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything." also claim that someone taught them to never argue politics or religion, the two very things that knights physically fought and killed over.

A champion has a cause. He will always be standing for what he knows is right.

To claim to know the truth, and remain silent makes you the opposite of a champion. That is a coward.

I may not win a fight, or an athletic competition. I may not even win someone to Christ, or my political platform. But a champion is thus called because he is still in the fight, swinging away, charging headlong into the fray.

I pray that both I and you are Champions today.