What War?

Peace

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA

2 Tim 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. NASU

One of the truths that are evading the Christian mindset in today’s world is the fact that we are truly at war. We live in the United States of America, and war is something that happens somewhere else. Death and dying, mutilation and torture are things that we see on the news and we shake our heads at its display, but there is a much more important battle raging than the one that we see.

Faith is preparedness, and we need to be practicing our faith more today than at any other time in history. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said this, “That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.” So herein lays our problem, we as Christians do not believe in this spiritual war that is taking place as you read this, and I write it. We do not see the terrible raging war that would cause us to tremble if we knew the details.

Somewhere in this world today someone will lose in this spiritual battle and will be cast headlong into an eternal hell, screaming, and will dwell there, without hope, forever. No thought that tomorrow things will improve only despair and darkness. Now if we believed this, then we would be adequate to this crisis, and God has given us all the tools, but it requires of us that we believe a crisis exists.

It is a fact that we are in battle, and we must be properly equipped. Now that equipment is found in God’s Word, and if we would be prepared at all times for this spiritual war, we would be the adequate peacemakers God wants us to be…God Bless.

Pastor William