I have noticed in the armor of God, we have a shield to block the fiery darts of the enemy, but we do not have bows or arrows. Apparently we are meant for hand to hand combat. That is certainly how it feels when I am fighting temptation. Christ has won the war, and when we are with him we will enjoy the spoils. Meanwhile we battle our Enemy, the sin in the world, and the sin in us. We are not alone, we are part of the army that is the church. We know a battle rages around us--the clash of two great forces, but we cannot concern ourselves with that. We must focus only on the foe in front of us.
One of the problems is that our attackers are like those in video games, the sins we think we have conquered spring back to life. The good news is, so do we. Our defeats are only temporary. And if they leave us exhausted from the effort, we are also better prepared for the next attack. Christian soldiers do not get to fire arrows from safety behind a wall, as if we could eradicate sin all at once. We fight hand to hand, sin by sin, one foe at a time.
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