It’s tempting to provide a discourse on spiritual warfare. But that would require books, not a blog post! Instead, I’m going to put one current battle into perspective. If we learn something in the process, all the better!
Spiritual Warfare: Always With Us
We have a mission team headed to Belize in early October. It’s easy to acknowledge the enemy would rather no one be engaged in missions. But he is subtle in his ways. It’s necessary for him to be that way. Just think what you would do if you were intent on harming someone. Would you put your plans on Facebook? Of course not. You would act in covert ways.
One further illustration is any pack of predators you might watch on a nature show. Do the predators go after whole herds? No. They try to separate one from the herd and attack that single animal. Our enemy is no different. He sneaks and attacks individuals he thinks he can overcome. Do we help him?
I ask that question because we often (too often!) don’t see his work in our difficulties. How do I know?
Paul points that out in Ephesians 6:
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
What Paul is pointing out is we often think our difficulties are tied to the people or things we can see. That’s not true. Our enemy is not the person or circumstances we can see.
Spiritual Warfare: An Unseen Enemy
Our real enemy remains unseen behind those things. Why would he want to advertise his involvement? He’d much rather you go blindly through life as if he didn’t exist. He does exist and your demise is his agenda. But, we have read the back of the Book!!! Until his demise, we engage in spiritual warfare.
The point of this post is to ask, urge, and to beg you for your prayers. We have all noticed that our adversary is working frantically in the world today. None of us are aware when the enemy will turn his attacks toward one of us. But we do know they are coming, if we are engaged in actively serving the Lord and seeking His Glory!
We ask you to pray for us and in turn, we will pray for you. That we all might stand firm during the time of testing and trial, and that we would not fall for the schemes of the enemy. Even though the enemy is unseen, the battle is always with us.
Soli Deo Gloria!
