SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14
“Our
struggle is…against…spiritual forces.”
Eph 6:12 NAS
SPIRITUAL
WARFARE (2)
When the first plane hit the World Trade Center we
thought it was accidental. When another plane hit it, we knew we were under
attack. Dr. Robert Jeffress says: “Knowing the source of the problem is crucial…a
navigational accident demands one response. A hostile strike requires a
completely different strategy. Every day our world is invaded by what we
consider random events. Couples divorce, so we develop marriage enrichment seminars;
drug use increases, so we educate our children to ‘just say no;’ pornography
among Christians rises, so we organize accountability groups; churches threaten
to split, so hire arbitrators to help with conflict resolution; Christians
battle depression and suicidal thoughts, so we medicate them with the latest
drugs. Please understand, I’m all for [such programs], but what if the source
is more than random events and we are under Enemy attack? Would we change our
strategy? Through Scripture we discover there’s an unseen world and it’s at
war. Paul writes: ‘Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against…spiritual
forces of wickedness.’ You can’t just shrug your shoulders and say, ‘I don’t
have a dog in that fight.’ You’re living in the crossfire of this spiritual war…the
Enemy’s determined to destroy everything and everyone important to you. And
those who dismiss such words as being over the top—do so to their own
detriment. Martin Lloyd Jones said, ‘Not to realize you’re in a conflict, means
you are hopelessly defeated and you don’t even know it.’ We’re in a very real
war, the stakes are high, the enemy skilled, armed, and determined. The
possibility of losing…is real. You must be aware of what’s happening and be
prepared to fight.”
Taken
from The Word for You Today devotional
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