Wars Everywhere
There seems to be wars everywhere. Wars within one’s self. Wars within one’s family and wars within one’s relationship. Wars on one’s job and wars within one’s community and wars within one’s state. Everywhere one goes, there seems to be some type of war taking place, and believe it or not, there are a great deal of wars in the church. Life within itself is always a constant struggle. The caterpillar must struggle to break out of the cocoon, in order to become a butterfly. The student must constantly struggle in order to keep up the good grades. The young couple must struggle to keep their marriage from falling apart. The former drug addict must struggle to stay clean, so, that he will not return to his habit. The Christian must constantly struggle to become more and more like Christ. Life is a war zone, and it does not matter whether one is black or white, or a Muslim or Christian. We all face war zones in our lives. Many of us come out from one battlefield, just to enter into another one. Some wars that we face in our lives have been brought on by circumstances out of our control, while others, we have a great deal of control over them, because we were the ones who went out and created the mess or chaos. However, as one becomes older and wiser, he or she begins to pick and choose which battles to fight, because some battles are not worth fighting. In life there is one thing that a person is guaranteed to receive free, and, that is a hard time. One does not have to go looking for trial and tribulations or hard times. They will find you. This is why the bible is not in vain when it tells us in Ephesians 6:12:
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places.
II Corinthians 10: 3-6, also sheds some light on the subject of warfare, in which these verses emphasize that our battles are not physical but spiritual and are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds and casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into the captivity, every thought to the obedience of Christ, and having all readiness to revenge disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Wars, and battles are just apart of life and there is no way to avoid them.
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