We Are at War

A sad, but true, reality that we have been lulled into today is the forgetting or ignoring of the fact that we, as Christians, are in an all out war. No, I am not speaking of the war that is going on amongst the ranks of Christianity (which by the way is absolutely ridiculous) over the issues of pants and hair parts. I am not speaking of the wars between the "immergents" and the IFBers. I am not speaking of the rock throwing and rip sessions that are pitted against the non-denoms that use YouTube as their main catalyst. I am speaking of the raging, horrific, often ignored war that is blazing around us each and every second. I am making reference to the fact that every day we wake up, we are faced with a brand spanking new, hot off the press, war. We get so enamored with picking apart our titled Christian brothers, that we forget the enemy is sneaking through OUR back doors, eating us alive from the inside out. It seems that we have forgotten the admonishments of being sober, circumspect and vigilant. It is apparent that the enemy has rocked us to sleep with a false sense of security in our standards and man made convictions. We have forgotten that our enemy is the principality of the power of the air, the lord of darkness, and the ruler of wickedness. I think that we have forgotten that we are engulfed in a battle, as Christians, against the world around us, the flesh wrapped around us, and devil who is walking about, seeking for people to devour. The war is real. The enemy far outweighs us. The enemy has his scope set right between our eyes, and his archers are ever ready at moments notice to strike us through the heart with what he pleases. We walk out of our homes on a daily basis, like a soldier going to war with no gun. We scurry off to war with no protection, no weapon, and no armor! What are we thinking!? The most insane part of our (and yes, I am preaching to myself) condition is the fact that God offers us HIS weapons of warfare, Jehovah offers us HIS armor, and God Almighty offers us HIS power, and we consistently resist and ignore all of His help. We go days without the Word of God, (our Sword of the Spirit) and expect our lives to be hunky-dory. We go weeks with a piddly excuse for a prayer life, all the while wondering why we can't get ahead of the attacks on our life. Pick up the armor that is offered! Pick up the Sword of God and go to battle! The devil is having an absolute hay-day on Christians. He is feasting on statistics of fallen men and women of God because he knows that he has the open door to do what he wants to us. Let's stop offering him ourselves medium-well on a silver platter by not standing in the power of Christ with His armor, shield and sword. Let's stand as Christians together and take the battle to satan himself. He has no place in our churches! He has no place in our homes, families and marriages! He has no right to do as he pleases in our lives! He is and always will be subservant to the power, might and preemmenence of Christ! He is a counterfeit, a phony, a liar, a deceiver, and weakling compared to our King; but yet, we see hundreds of people (and in solemn confession, I myself at times) fall to him every single day. Why? Because we forget that we are in a battle, and we let our guard down. Stand in the power of Christ; put the whole armor of God on; pick up the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God; we have got a battle to fight. Souls, churches, families, homes, friends and schools are at stake. Will we stand idly by and watch the battle be lost? God forbid.