Sharpening Peace

Sometimes it’s difficult to take an objective in battle. More often, it’s even more difficult to hold it. Especially when the battlefield is within one’s own mind. God knows this; that’s why the Holy Spirit is here and not in Heaven. We need God in our lives to win these battles, but even more importantly… to hold what we have won.

Some of our greatest weapons are counterintuitive. Peace. Joy. Temperance. Even humor. We don’t think of these as weapons because we don’t really understand what spiritual warfare is. We want to fight; that’s a world we understand. But ultimately conventional mindsets taken into a spiritual warfare are akin to bringing a knife to a phaser fight. In orbit.

In good old D&D, It was always interesting when a group had to travel through the Astral Plane on some adventure.  A silvery, shimmering plane of existence of pure thought.

Strength and dexterity scores were replaced by intelligence and wisdom scores. Suddenly the wizard’s fists hit like iron and it was the ostensibly powerful knights that would charge monsters only to find themselves getting pummeled when they swung their sword and didn’t have enough strength to pierce the monsters’ hides.

There are an awful lot of hills we can take in battle and then have all manner of struggle holding them. Especially when we are unfamiliar with how the battles are fought.

Maybe the first step is always remembering we had the strength to take the hill to begin with. Sometimes we might have to take it again. But He is with us… which is everything. With Him we can overcome any spiritual foe. Without Him, we are a knight being crushed on the Astral Plane.

Peace. Joy. Temperance. Those bastards haaaaaaaaate them. 😂

Conventional wisdom would tell us they are defenses – not weapons. They’re probably a bit of both, but thinking of them as weapons might be really useful just because it makes us realize the difference in the kind of battle we are fighting as we fight. 🤔

 Just some thoughts…