Sunday, April 17, 2011

Doing battle

He is called the Lord of Hosts.  I like that.  The Lion, that CS Lewis' Pevensies reminded us again and again is not a tame Lion.  I like that too.  I am no warrior.  There is little of one in me.  Yet I am called to do battle daily. Beating flesh and thought into submission, resisting the enemy's wiles and fighting the good fight.  I envy the (pretend) men who long for battle and when they have one revel in it.
I do not think I can take anything from my enemy.  I say today, however that I will give him nothing.  A fictional warrior said, "Give them nothing" and another, "Show no mercy, for you will receive none."  I will give him nothing, and to my Lord everything.
That is my prayer.

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