You have to choose your warfare. How are you going to fight the war you are in at the moment? There is such a big temptation in life just to amble through. The greatest enemy tactic must be to make us forget there is a war.
There have been adverts on TV recently for a documentry about how the British forces used pornography seduce the German soldiers thus making them weak targets (or something to that effect). Two things came to me about that. First of all, yeah, our enemy uses some of the same tactics, particularly amongst men to make us weak, it can be that specific at times. The ment amongst us have to be like Timothy as he was urged by Paul to pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love and gentleness, fighting the good fight of faith (1 Tim 6: 11-12)
But secondly, more generally, the enemy will seek to make us at ease, to slow up, to relax a bit…and it works…especially in the lazy days of summer. To quote a phrase “are you forgetting there is a war on?”
I need to keep my warfare in my mind. Every hello, every encounter with a person is a chance to fight agaisnt the enemy’s cause. if we don’t choose our warfare, and by that I mean constantly re-align our will to the fight, we will cease to fight and we become the tea-sipping religious character from every soap opera and drama in the world.
yours in the trenches
Andrew
Andrew S M Clark 