" sometimes i use the phrase "wartime lifestyle" or "wartime mind-set." The phrase is helpful- but also lopsided. For me it is mainly helpful. It tells me that there is a war foinf on in the world between Christ and Satan, truth and falsehood, belief and unbelief...it tells me that the stakes of this conflict are higher than any other war in history; they are eternal joy or eternal torment (matt 25:46)
...I need to hear this message again and again, because i drift into a peacetime mind-set as certainly as rain falls down and flames go up. I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. i start to call earth "home". Before you know it, i am calling luxuries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the "war". I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached peoples drop out of my mind. i stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mindset that looka first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And i thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a war-time mindset. "
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As followers of Jesus Christ we fight only one war...the war against the flesh!
James 4:1 "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?"
1 Peter 2:11 "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul."
When we learn to live a Spirit-led life the wars will cease and the peace of God, that surpasses all understanding will reign in our lives.
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