Spiritual Battle

 AATHAVAN 🖋️ 645 ⛪ November 03, 2022 Thursday 

"When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." ( Deuteronomy 20 : 1 )

While reading the above verse for today's meditation, many Christians think these are the words mentioning their worldly enemies. They consider their neighbors, or those who work against them in their office as enemies. But according to the New Testament we have no carnal enemies. It is said that the characteristic of a Christian is to forgive and forget. Not revenge.

A brother once told me that, in office his superior officer was working against him. He said to me that when he prayed to God,  God gave this verse to him. "when seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt". He said with confidence that the Lord would give him victory, claiming that the verse had been clearly revealed to him. But, in fact, this man was the culprit and later terminated from job.

Beloved, this verse from the Old Testament is spoken to the people of the New Testament as a spiritual verse. Our enemies are ourselves. Our enemies are, sinful desires and sinful circumstances that deceive us. These are challenges that Satan brings to cause us to fall from the spiritual life.

The meaning is, we should not be afraid of great sinful situations, like horses and chariots and great crowds of people; The Lord our God is with us. He will surely deliver us from deadly sins and sinful habits, from the wiles of Satan and from the powers of darkness.

This is why the apostle Paul wrote, "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 )".

Further Paul says, "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:"  ( Ephesians 6 : 13 - 17)

Beloved, today's verse begins as, "When you go out to fight against your enemies." Yes, it means when we go for a spiritual battle, we must make sure that we have the above weapons that the apostle Paul said. Moreover, these weapons should be properly sharpened and make ready for use. Only then can we win such spiritual battles

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