I make war.

In the movie, Braveheart, William Wallace is a man who is strongly convicted that freedom is a necessity for the people of Scotland.  Yeah, that's right, of course I'm talking about Braveheart!  Scotland is under the rule of Edward of Longshanks, and he's trying to weed out all of the Scottish people.  Then the story continues and William Wallace leads a giant rebellion and soon helps Scotland gain liberty and freedom.

        Our lives are a lot like William's.  In our lives, satan is trying to weed out Christ-followers.  He's trying to turn people away from Truth, away from Jesus.  Satan cannot win in a war against God, so he makes war against the people who were made in God's image.  He is constantly trying to make us follow him and the world and our flesh, rather than the one being who is worthy of being followed.

        Our job is Christians is not to stand passively and watch this happen.  Our job as Christians is not to let ourselves be deceived.  Our job is not to say that we love Christ and yet watch as people are lied to, corrupted, and recruited to work for satan.  Yet so often we stand on the sideline and watch this war work itself out. 

      There are no innocent bystanders.  Jesus says that "if you aren't for me, you're against me".  We need to be active participants in the fight against sin.   Then why does it seem like we are constantly falling for decoys?  We often don't put up a fight in temptation, we don't put up a fight for other people, we don't put up a fight for anything.  Romans 8:13 says that " if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live".

We are in a fight for our lives.  As John Piper says, "Be killing sin, or sin will be killing you."  Now is not the time to be passive.  Now is not the time to be apathetic.  A war for our lives is being fought.  Freedom is near.  Christ gave us a chance, now let's fight for Him.

Don't let satan get a foot hold in your anger, in your lust, in your lying, in your cheating, in your jealousy.  Don't give satan a chance at destroying your life.  When we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior, we accept the notion that we're in a war, and that we need to fight.  So why then do we live with our sin, and accept it as it is?  Make war with it!

My anger?  Is being fought every time I come across it.  My lust?  Is being fought, for "me and my mouse will serve the Lord".  My flesh?  Dies daily because of Jesus' ultimate sacrifice. 

My challenge to you is to make war with your sin using the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of the Lord.  Be thinking of God.  Focus yourself on God.  Be delighted in God and His Word.  God has given us armor, and the Sword of the Spirit is the only offensive weapon.  So fight with it.