“A Call To War? Or A Way Out”
A call to war. A call is just that, it’s a call. It comes from someone. Not heeding, does not negate the call. There are many call’s in this world, some are love calls, some are greetings, some are distress, some are warnings and some are a call to war. There are many different kinds of wars, some are short term and some are long term. Some are surface wars and some are at the root cause of the war. A war is still a war either way. Some fight only the surface war, but we are all called to fight the root of it. A policeman fights the surface endlessly while the detective gets to the root of the war. He searches for evidence. We are all called to search for the evidence. There are reasons for wars. How can we fight and win a war if we don’t know the root cause of it. To arrest the user of a drug is one thing, to arrest the seller is the root. In the case of a gardener, if we don’t want weeds in the garden we kill the roots. There are hidden wars and there are visible ones. Visible wars are easily detected but hidden ones are not. All have surface results.
There are wars over land, power, control, and such. The real war is for man’s soul ( his mind, will and emotions). How a man thinks is what a man will do. In this world we see many wars. They are everywhere. It seems that the bad wars outnumber the good ones. Yes there are bad and good wars. All wars have one thing in common. They are all spiritual. The first war was launched in the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve for their soul, the way they think. Satan sowed seeds of doubt in their minds, doubting God thus separating them from God, resulting in man stumbling through life without directions. “War won”. The war was fought on the surface by words in order to win the root. The root is man’s conscience, where the awareness of God, his Father, resides. The goal of satan was to stop the consciousness of God in man. To be conscious of God is to be aware of His way, how He thinks and does things. Satan is the perfect example of a godless way, lying, cheating, hating, rebelliousness and such.
Today all wars are fought between the soul and the spirit. It’s been said by many dictators through the generations, if we can get to man’s children early enough, we can control them. The very words of satan. You might have the thought of, government run schools? Do we have any rebellious young people around, without direction, who might vote for a socialist for president? How long has the consciousness of God been erased from our schools?
So wars have been fought throughout history for the control of man. How he thinks, what he owns and to whom is his allegiance. The wars of Israel, Jews and Christians, the root, is about the goodness of God and the evil of satan. Large wars and small ones are at the root, the same. Conquer and rule with evil. There are many wars in this life, some are very bad, with evil intent. Good wars are fought against that very thing. The consciousness of God is certainly worth fighting for, for us, our children and future generations. Jesus fought the war for freedom from sin and ours is to fight the war to keep that.
In this age of mass communication we are constantly hearing, talk, talk, look, look, do this, do that, think this, think that. All are designed to change the way we see and do things. Some we embrace, some we reject, and some we just, all out war against. Some subtle and some not so subtle, a good detective can tell. A major war is the one that is said of, you don’t have to fight this one. Those are the biggest wars and the most important ones to win. Now there are wars that Jesus has and will fight and win for us and then there are those He will not. We had better know the difference. A good detective searches out which ones are which. God may tell us to build a house, but if we don’t pick up a hammer, He won’t give us instructions on how to build it. The same in war He can gather the enemy in the right place to be defeated, but if we don’t pick up a rifle and go, the war is not won and the enemy gets stronger. Does the word ISIS come to mind? We would be surprised at how many wars God has fought for us that we didn’t know about. I think His outnumbers ours. So, let’s fight the few He calls us to. If we see a war on the horizon, we had better find out if He is going to fight it or is He going to instruct us on how to fight it. We might look a little worse for wear after the war, but we win in the end. He knows the wars are good for us, good exercise. I don’t think the devil looks at it quite that way though.
There are those in leadership today in America who advocate a policy of passivity, not fighting, but talking will win in the end. We are not talking about a simple argument here. We are talking about an attack of war. spiritual or physical, Talking? How did that work out in the garden of Eden? This kind of policy leads to something similar as going into a pen with a rabid pit-bull dog. The dog will come out with every hair in place, but your clothes will be half torn off, with cuts and bruises all over. That is, if you are fortunate enough to get out of the pen alive.
A coward is one who gave in once and has lived to regret it. He is never the same again, unless he refuses to give in to the bully the next time and there will be many next times. Good soldiers know that there will always be wars and don’t go out half dressed for it. A courageous soldier waits for the word to “charge”, then he runs into the battle and does not stand down until the war is won. God wars for the soul and conscience of His people. Satan started this war, but God and the body of Christ (The Church) will win it. We are His good and well armed soldiers. He knows the future. He said while hanging on the cross,”It is finished”. That was His declaration of the war won. His desire and ours is to live in peace as in the Garden of Eden. As the old Alabama farmer would say. “You got to keep the bugs and vermin out”. If we want peace in our homes, city, state, nation and world, we have to fight the war of bad instructions, temptations, and recognize the difference between a weed and a flower, as I once told my grandson about girls.
PS: To win the war is great gain, to lose the soul is a terrible thing,” You, yes you, are a good soldier. You might get beat up once in awhile, but war is not a spectator sport, as you well know. Sergeant York, a great war hero once said, “I war to stop the killing of my friends”. We war to stop the killing, killing of the soul.
David McClary
