Reading from Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What this morning.
…we are mistaken to believe this is a war between people with flesh and people with flesh. The only appropriate war rhetoric is war rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits, and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that sometimes evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the ones who believe in Jesus, is a war unseen. If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into a patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties to be sure.
Something for me to remember – he compares the effects of the first betrayal to what happened to kids born around areas of nuclear fallout. Our souls are mutated/broken.
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I love that book. I especially love the chapter where he debates the existence of God and looks up and tells God he doesn’t exist, and realizes how ironic that is.
The book is like comfort food for me. It’s a weird feeling. Like McDonald’s, but healthier.