It’s A Battle!

“For we
wrestle not
against flesh
and blood,
but
against
principalities,
against
powers,
against
the rulers
of the darkness
of this world,
against
spiritual wickedness
in high places”
Ephesians 6:12

If you haven't figured it out yet, we as Christians, are in a constant battle.

Oh, it's not a knock out, take down, fist swinging brawl. BUT it most definitely is a fight. The devil hates God and all believers in Jesus Christ, and he will do whatever he can to cause us to stumble and fall in our walk with the Lord.

You may be thinking, "I'm nobody special. I'm not a preacher or an evangelist or a missionary. I'm a stay at home Mom raising my children and endeavoring to be the best godly wife and Mom I can be. Or I'm a guy who goes off to work each day to provide for my wife and children and pray every day I would be growing in my walk with the Lord. But I really don't think that all this battle talk is for me. I think it's just for pastors, evangelists and missionaries."

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

No matter if you are a preacher, a homemaker, a businessman, a student, a grocery bag boy, an evangelist. You fill in the blank.

If you have
a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ,
you ARE
in a DAILY
MOMENT BY MOMENT
SPIRITUAL BATTLE!

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
I Peter 5:8

As believers in Christ, we are constantly in a war between listening to the whisperings of the adversary, whose only goal is to destroy us, or following the promptings of The Holy Spirit, Who lives within us as children of God. A battle between my choices and what the Lord would have me to do MOMENT BY MOMENT!

We live our lives in a "tug of war" and the consequences are always based upon our choices.

As believers in Jesus Christ, we are called His ambassadors.

“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ”
II Corinthians 5:20a

When Brian and I go on truck dates, we love to "people watch!"

If people know that we are Christians, they are watching us even more closely. Our daily choices, not only will have consequences for our own lives, but they also could make others thirsty for Christ or make them say, "She's no different from me. If that's what being a Christian is all about, no thanks!"

YES,
our choices
are that
important!

Okay, picture yourself on an airplane flying wherever you want to go. If you read my last post, you know I'll be headed straight to Hawaii!!

No one on this flight knows I'm a Christian. And, yes, I got stuck sitting in the middle of a row of three seats. There's a big, brute of a guy sitting in the aisle seat, and he has already begun “jibber-jabbering” to me about his wife and kids back home!

By the window seat is a young Mom traveling alone with her baby girl whose little face is puckered up and the tears are just beginning to form in her sweet little eyes.

So what will I do?

Will I let out a huge sigh, roll my eyes, pop in my ear buds and very quickly pull out the book I'm carrying with me, and randomly open it to page 148 and proceed to read that exact page for the next four hours of the flight so I can be totally oblivious to all that is going on around me??!!