The most important/perilous war known to man.
Usually when I shower in the morning, thoughts, often on a particular theme come racing to my mind, thoughts typically but not always shaped by the events of the previous day. This morning I was thinking about wars and it struck me right between the eyes how the worst and most dangerous and important war known to man is neither fought in Irak nor in Afghanistan - it is a war fought in man… It is a war fought in little battles and at different battle fronts… it is a war as old as man… a war between good and evil… a war driven on the one hand by suicidal, fatalistic fleshy desires(desires which may be good in themselves but toxic when out of their intended/created purposes and kill slowly but surely) and on the other hand, spiritual desires to do right, righteousness… a war which pits a fiercely fighting flesh, seeking to secure its hedonistic desires and a lovingly fighting spirit seeking to ensure a life on earth and beyond… two soldiers of an uncommon kind, the flesh and the spirit… it is the soldier which gets the more nourishment and equipment which wins… and when the spirit has lost long enough, it dies and men, even though dead, continue to walk the surface of the earth… redemption for such is only found in the miraculous ‘kiss of life’/ resuscitation from above, from the Holy Spirit, from the Cross…
Oh how sin always LOOKS good… but the consequences are never good… pleasure apart from Christ never really satisfies, never, never ever, at best it is very ephemeral and that is the reason why the desire for it always leaves you longing for more, more , more, until a monster is fed which will consume itself… It is the most important war… it is war never fully won until we breathe our last… a war which echoes with a stentorian voice in eternity and determines where we spend it…
If pleasure drives you, the appetite is insatiable and you always crave from more, but if Christ drives you and you really have HIM, you have everything you will ever need in knowing HIM more and more and more…
May the unquenchable light from the Cross illumine your life for evermore…
With much love,
© 2009 Afeseh.
