Thursday, July 2: 2Corinthians 10- We are in a battle.

I found myself thinking about verse 3: For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.

My thoughts ran in a number of directions. First, we are in a battle. We are.

Our culture is working overtime to drag us into its mold. Advertisers are battling to have us spend our dollars on their products. And the enemy of God is working overtime to keep us from becoming effective ambassadors for Jesus in the world.

We are in a battle!

Secondly, I thought about our weapons, which are not the world’s weapons and our manner of battle is not the world’s manner.

Our weapons are spiritual in dimension not this-worldly. We have the weapon of prayer… calling out to God for heavenly support. We have God’s weapon of His authority.  We live and move and battle not from a position of weakness but strength… not our strength, mind you, but God’s strength as we live in His name! Our weapons are the various spiritual gifts that God gives us to use and we have the weapons of Spirit-Fruit, too. A character of living and battling that the world simply cannot access because they know not God, Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit.

Not only that, we wage our battle from our ‘knees’ in prayer and humility. Humility, which is born of strength not weakness. I am thinking of the attitude of Jesus that Paul commends to us in Philippians 2:5-8…

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

Sadly, too often I resort to the world’s ways and forget that we do not wage war as the world does.

Lord, help me to rely on You and Your ways not my ways… please. I pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

 

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