Thursday, June 5, 2014

Direction First, Says Gurnall, after the Sweet Encouragements

Chapter 2

Let us get down to brass tacks! Which Way Do We Go? Isn’t that the question.

In the era that we are living in, what is the battle? So many are fighting wars from the Middle Ages, when we are in a new Millenium. Wrack our minds into a pulp and here we are gathering around old scrolls, sometimes to worship the worth of them. We beat ourselves, as it were with feathers and us the weapons of our warfare to sit on instead of to protect ourselves. Shame on us.

Where are we, today? What is the battle that we are engaged in? Perilous times are different for us than they were for Gurnall, but the question is the same. We must engage our youthful efforts in rightly diagnosing the problem and early equipping our young to take authority over the principalities that they are facing.

Having Done all to Stand? Don’t we love to sing about standing? What do you do? I sing myself to sleep, sometimes, when I should be fighting. My shame. You don’t JUST Stand. You stand, therefore, having… Definitely, if you just stand there unequipped for the battle you will be defeated as if you try to fight the battle on your own. You are a part of a mighty army of God.

You have equipment given to you from God to defend yourself

You must stand if your are equipped, sometimes we put the cart before the horse and think by our believing and just standing we are ready for the warfare. I have indeed been sadly mistaken. Stand, after you have put on the whole armor.

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