My thoughts on the holy war against Satan.

Wedenesday in Bible we talked about Romans 14 where it's talking about how some people believe that some days are more holy than others and whatever and that we don't need to condemn each other because we'll all give our own account to God. Great bunch of verses. Because that is most definitely one of the major problems of christianity today, as Relient K puts it:

"The enemy is much ignored
while we fight this Christian civil war.

We're cannibals.
We watch our brothers fall.
We eat our own, the bones and all."

And so, wednesday night, while thinking on this subject i thought of an interesting analogy that i would like to share with you. When i thought this up i thought it was really cool. So i wrote it down on paper (Chris can write on paper?) and now i will blog it for you.

This holy war against Satan is less of a war in the traditional sense and more of a covert mission behind enemy lines and then trying to get home. In an earthly war you shoot at the enemy, he shoots at you, everyone loses. In the war with Satan we are in his territory. He owns the earth. We are the rebelious freedom fighters trying to make our way back home in one piece. The enemy, being the spiteful jerk he is, does not want us to get home. And even if we do get home he wants to make it so it's only after he's blasted us into pieces and we're sent there in a body bag. Now our primary objective is to free any captives we come accross on the way home. There sure are a lot of them. And we have to remind them that they need to get home. And the hardest part of all of this is that as we continue to try to follow orders and trek home and avoid the traps and ambushes of the enemy (his land mines and snipers are everywhere) on top of all that our own comrades love to shoot us right in the back. Maybe they don't mean to. Maybe in a "loving" way they're trying to help you but it feels like they're pointing thier gun at you're feet and saying "DANCE". This is something we need to be careful of guarding ourselves against and also need to be careful not to do to our fellow soldiers. As it says in Romans 14:12-13 "So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way." In this war there may be times when a fellow soldier will say "I look in the handbook and i believe our orders are this" and you will look in you soldiers handbook (Bible) and say "But i clearly see that right here it says this!" and you cannot come to an agreement then don't open fire on each other. You're already under attack from every side! You don't need more bullets to dodge! Drop it. Remember. At the end of the war the commander-in-chief will judge us all on how we followed our orders and how we did on our mission behind enemy lines. Some will be traitors. Some will be heroes. All will be under the commander-in-chief. So we don't need to worry about other people's orders. All we need to worry about is following our orders, freeing the captives, and getting home at the end of it all. So let's focus on our mission together and MOVE OUT!

Now i don't know what you thought of that, i didn't actually write that much out, i kind of fleshed it out for my blog. I hope you liked it. And by the way, to God be the glory, i didn't think that up on my own. Thank God for inspiration. Anyway, now i must go. I hope you liked this post. And i hope it wasn't too long for you. Cya!