Peaches and Cream

Being a Christian isn’t all peaches and cream.  It’s a battlefield, a bull ring, an arena.  It’s the place of spiritual war.  In any war there are casualties; likewise in the spiritual war.  Soldiers are wounded; then the church comes along and buries its wounded.  Some recover and want to get back into the battle again, but the church prefers ‘soldiers’ who know nothing of the scars of spiritual battle to soldiers who have been at the forefront, and have the scars to prove it.

Even today, our Prime Minister is working hard, in conjunction with Satan, to destroy Christian marriage.  The devil will use anyone to rob marriage of its specialness, uniqueness, joyfulness, satisfaction, and witness.

Christians, watch out, Satan’s about.  While doing his evil work, he keeps himself well hidden so that all we can see are other people, when in fact, it is the devil who is really at work.  “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Eph.6:12).  He dogs our steps continually.  But he dogs us as a defeated enemy.  That’s our hope and confidence.  Tell him he’s a defeated enemy.  We have to do that constantly.  Otherwise he will get us down.  By resisting him, we drive him away from us (Jas 4:7).