Our Warfare

Warfare! What do you think about when you hear this word? In our day, I am sure that you begin to think about the thousands of young men and women who are deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq doing battle with terrorists. You are probably visualizing them hunkered down in foxholes or shielding themselves behind bullet-riddled buildings. You may even remember the vivid images that were shown on your television as the first bombs were dropped in these two countries.

No doubt, as you think about warfare, you think about death. Over these last several months we have heard and read the names of hundreds of young men and women who have given their lives for freedom. We have seen the pictures of grieving wives, husbands, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers. We have watched as they tried to share with the world who their sons and daughters were. We have watched as they cried one minute and laughed the next. And all of this is because of warfare.

Friends, just like there is a struggle and warfare in promotion of personal freedoms and peace, there is also a spiritual warfare taking place to promote spiritual freedom and peace. This freedom and peace is in regards to the souls of men, women, boys and girls. Humanity is in spiritual bondage to sin and Satan and in general has little or no peace. In this warfare there is also a great need for soldiers who are willing to go to battle! These soldiers are the born again Christians who have a personal faith in Jesus Christ. These soldiers are also willing to give their lives for the freedom of others.

As Christians fight in this warfare, they MUST remember who the enemy is. The enemy is not the drug addict, nor the prostitute. It is not even the despised dictators of the world. The enemy is Satan! 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. Eph 6:12 (KJV) Far to often we go after those involved in sin as if they were Satan himself. Let us always remember that they are under bondage and need to be liberated to a life of freedom and peace in Christ Jesus. May we go forth and do battle with Satan!