Daily Bread thoughts as we said goodbye to dear neighbors.

Luke 10:1-24

I see hospitality again and then in the middle, Jesus talking about Satan falling from heaven as lightning.

What is the connection? You will or will not be received with the Gospel and that is the spiritual battle. You may or may not be received for the Gospel sake that is the struggle of soul and spirit.

Satan is influencing the dissemination of hospitality to his cause as well. Pr 7 and 8 look at the difference between the foolish woman and the call of wisdom.

He is on the earth and you will have to engage him. These are his earmarks and Jesus tells us. God is the ultimate conqueror, but He engages us in the conflict. So often I feel that my soul will separate from my body because there is such a struggle of soul.

How can you know God for so long and still stumble so? How can you see God’s goodness and doubt Him as you do? Jesus rejoiced in Spirit in this passage and the battle is a corporate one and not an individual one. It is won in families and churches where God has revealed it unto the “babes” for his glory.

A warrior in spirit and a child in faith and a serpent in wisdom and a dove in malice, seems too hard for me. By flesh it is impossible, by grace it is our lot to pursue.