Wars

We feel the uneasiness as we listen to the evening news. Bad news from our communities; evil. "Everywhere is war" is not just a line in the lyrics of a Bob Marley song. The bible says there will be wars and rumors of wars.

If we switch from the local news to the international news, we still hear of wars. Proxy wars and cyber wars are recent additions to our history of world wars and civil wars. Then there is the ominous and ever looming threat of nuclear war.

We are told there are culture wars and wars on women, on poverty, on drugs and on and on and then there is the war within us.

The bible asks "from whence come wars and fighting among us?"

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? James 4:1

Our passion is our purpose
To know Christ and to
make Him known !

JESUS IS GOD
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. - ‭Isaiah‬ ‭9‬:‭6‬

WORD !!

So . . . the wars we see around us all start in the minds and hearts of people who have not made peace with their creator . . . "But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us" - Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭13-14‬

Once we have His peace in us, we find ourselves at war ! Not cold warriors like the Reagans, Rumsfelds and Cheneys or just culture warriors like Bill O'reiley.

The bible says "you therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. . . endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. - 2 Timothy‬ ‭2‬:‭1, 3-4‬

So it is as though the Christian now at peace with God finds he/she is engaged in another war, with weapons: the bible says "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; - 2 Corinthians‬ ‭10‬:‭4-5‬

It is what people think and believe that drives their behavior. Our mission, motive and message as "soldiers of Christ" is to share and give what we have.

And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. - Mark‬ ‭16‬:‭15-16‬

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