The Battle

This life is not an easy one to live. Life, itself, is elusive. Life, you see, is not the breath you take or your heartbeat; it is Christ. Life is spiritual. It is love. When we are told that our battle in this life is not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual powers of darkness, we are being shown the difference between the living in Christ and the walking dead.

The problem is we are usually fighting the wrong thing or not fighting the right thing. We tend to think of being a Christian as being in a fight. In reality, it is when we are living as Christ would live that we are at peace. The fight is against the spiritual darkness that can consume us. Ironic though it may seem to those who don't understand reality, fighting often involves resting in the peace of Christ.

It is not possible for one who has received Christ to become one of the walking dead again, but all too often we find ourselves imitating them: following a crowd of zombies, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, living in darkness, fearing the light, and tearing down the living.

We frequently need to stop and ask ourselves, what is it that we are fighting and what should we be fighting? Are we defeating the darkness by resting in the light, or are we destroying the light by fighting in the darkness?