Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual Warfare

One of the things I am amazed at is how deep the ways of God are intended to go. You know how you make a peanut butter sandwich by taking the peanut butter and spreading it on the bread. When God makes us new, His intent is to make us fully infiltrated with the nutty butter. The character of God and the humanity of man are to be one new thing.

This took on an unworldly reality to me as I discovered that Jesus did not revile against Satan in the wilderness temptations. Jesus dealt directly and truthfully with Satan, but he also did not belittle, mock, ridicule or scream at him. Jesus did rebuke the good old Godly boys of His day, but He treated everyone, even fallen angles, with God like character.

I have been trying to love my enemies. Now I get to mature until I love even God's enemies. I choose to love them, not because they are deserving of that love but because God's nature is to love and I want to be like Him.

So now is the harder part. If I am to love all that God has created and my fear of fallen angles is to be turned to faith, hope and love; then what about politicians, governmental leaders, those in earthly authority and those who are leading in a direction that I don't want to go. In the "ways of God" humility and compassion far outreach the outburst of anger that we have tended to use.