Battle weary, but battling nonetheless...

My friends, i don’t know if anyone has ever told you this, but you are in a battle, and i’m not just talking about Christians. Have you ever wondered sometimes why life is just hard and doesn’t make sense? Have you ever felt like there was just this brick wall that you couldn’t penetrate? To quote the movie Bruce Almighty, like there was an “anti-Bruce barrier?”

There is a battle going on all around you and there are only two choices (even if you are a non Christian). Am I going to fight or am i going to fail? Are you going to hang on even if you can’t see anything or are you going to wilt.

I had a revelation about a week ago that has just shaken me up. There really is no persecution in this country. I’m not talking about people laughing at you for your faith or making fun of you in school or work for standing up for what you believe; I’m talking about given the choice of dying for your faith or living without it, kind of persecution. And since there really isn’t that kind of persecution here in America (or countries like it) I sometimes wonder if God allows the enemy the come after us to see how hard we are going to hold onto him. I think the he will allow hard stuff to happen to see how sincere we really are. Remember Job? Lost everything he had ever had...including his kids. The only thing that God allowed him to keep was his wife and even she told him that he should just curse God and die.

I’m not saying that this is how things are all the time. Rain falls on the righteous and the unrighteous...sometimes bad things just happen...but the next time that you are faced with something like that, remember what Jesus said...that the devil is a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour...that he (the devil) has come to steal, to kill and to destroy, but that He (Jesus) is greater and wants you have ABUNDANT life....

Fight on you mighty man or woman of God. Cling to the promises in his word...put on the whole armor of God.

Ephesians 6:13 “That is why you need to put on God’s full armor. Then on the day of evil you will be able to stand strong. And when you have finished the whole fight, you will still be standing.” (NCV)