Stronger on My Knees

We are in the midst of a battle raging.

The enemy is fighting for souls. And if he can’t have the soul, he will fight to render the life powerless for the cause of Christ. Because broken, defeated Christians are no longer a threat to him. They are a cause for his victory, for evil to triumph and grow.

The battlefield is all around us. We can’t visually see the battle, but we can certainly see the fallout. The walking wounded. The broken and the bruised. The weary and downtrodden.

The battle rages on, in every area of our life that we leave uncovered and vulnerable to the enemy.

…in our hearts, tearing away at our relationship with God by distracting us with busy-ness. The tyranny of the urgent pulls us way from nurturing the truly most important priority in our life.

…in our homes, coming after our emotions, our mind, our health. It is coming for our husbands our children and our grandchildren.

…in our schools and workplaces, as we are constantly bombarded with compromising our beliefs; our heartfelt convictions, on the altar of compromise for the sake of ‘tolerance.’

…in our communities as we watch hatred and crime rip through our streets calling evil good, and good evil. It continues up through every level of the government to the most powerful seat in all the land where corruption, lies and deceit are rewarded like they are prized attributes.

…in our Churches, where gossip and division pit us against one another causing us to look like fools, pushing people away from the body of Christ instead of drawing them nearer to the Savior.

Yes, the battlefield is all around us. We are wounded and bleeding. Deeply cut by all the hurt and pain around us. But there is One who fights for us. And He calls us to stand.

To stand firm.

And to fight…on our knees.