This Is War
Thought for the day.....
This life is war. Anyone who doesn't believe it is kidding themselves or just not observent enough to look deeply into their own life and the lives of those around them. I turned 35 yesterday, and with what I've been through, especially in the last few years, I think I'm finally beginning to realize that I've got a huge fight on my hands. Whether people want to believe it or not, there is a Devil, there are demons, there is a corrupt, immoral world that rejects Father God and Jesus, and there is our own evil nature that is in everyone one of us, from saintly Mother Theresa to Adolf Hitler and everyone in between. Everyday that I wake up I have these powerful entities at work against my good and fighting for my destruction.
I've been living life as if it should be one big picnic basket with lots of cool food.....ahhhhh, coooool fooooood (said in Homer Simpson drooly voice)......almost taking the perspective that everyday should hold some sort of fun and entertainment for me. Whatever! Soldiers on the frontline in any grim battle know better than that. They know that most days are a fight for survival and pleasure to them is at its most basic form: a hot meal, a dry foxhole, a clean pair of socks, looking at a picture of loved ones, the brotherhood of the other warriors around them.
We need to get real about what we are up against in this life. Although our enemy may not seek our physical destruction on this particular day, he certainly seeks our spiritual and emotional destruction. And we need to be grateful for the simple gifts in this life instead of thinking God should've plopped us down in the middle of some cosmic carnival with fun and games and being horribly surprised when we wake up to the fact that we've been transported to the frontlines of the biggest war on earth.
This life is a war and we are in it.
This life is war. Anyone who doesn't believe it is kidding themselves or just not observent enough to look deeply into their own life and the lives of those around them. I turned 35 yesterday, and with what I've been through, especially in the last few years, I think I'm finally beginning to realize that I've got a huge fight on my hands. Whether people want to believe it or not, there is a Devil, there are demons, there is a corrupt, immoral world that rejects Father God and Jesus, and there is our own evil nature that is in everyone one of us, from saintly Mother Theresa to Adolf Hitler and everyone in between. Everyday that I wake up I have these powerful entities at work against my good and fighting for my destruction.
I've been living life as if it should be one big picnic basket with lots of cool food.....ahhhhh, coooool fooooood (said in Homer Simpson drooly voice)......almost taking the perspective that everyday should hold some sort of fun and entertainment for me. Whatever! Soldiers on the frontline in any grim battle know better than that. They know that most days are a fight for survival and pleasure to them is at its most basic form: a hot meal, a dry foxhole, a clean pair of socks, looking at a picture of loved ones, the brotherhood of the other warriors around them.
We need to get real about what we are up against in this life. Although our enemy may not seek our physical destruction on this particular day, he certainly seeks our spiritual and emotional destruction. And we need to be grateful for the simple gifts in this life instead of thinking God should've plopped us down in the middle of some cosmic carnival with fun and games and being horribly surprised when we wake up to the fact that we've been transported to the frontlines of the biggest war on earth.
This life is a war and we are in it.
posted by wwiiguy at 10:33 AM
1 Comments:
Its like you just hit on the two perspectives we most need to have and keep in balance all the time... that we're in a war (and be on the defensive and interpret life and situations as challenges) ... and we're meant to be "getting busy" with whatever God has put in our hearts and in our lives. That's the focus for our "offensive".
Thought you'd like the football terms. ;-)
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