spiritual warefare

John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life, "The war is not primarily spatial or physical—though its successes and failures have physical effects. Therefore, the secular vocations of Christians are a war zone. There are spiritual adversaries to be defeated (that is, evil spirits and sins, not people); and there is beautiful moral high ground to be gained for the glory of God. You don’t waste you life by where you work, but how and why."

Eph 6.2; "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."

If we are to overcome in this life, we must understand that the "playing field" is in the spiritual realm. While this has physical implications, our life and our fight is spiritual. Let's not waste our lives fighting on a humanistic plane, let's win the higher goal of overcoming in the spiritual.

On a personal note, today about 100 hundred of us from NSV gathered to give turkeys and side dishes away to those less fortunate. Very cool to be able to gather with family to serve and honor our God.

Also Isaiah and I spent some time together today. We went to Bob Evans (one of our favorites). Then I took him to a Junior Music Experience to play piano - yet another superior for his collection. Then we took some pictures down by the pond behind our house and finally played some ping-pong. I love that boy.

Only bummer is that yet another Hitachi 6GB Microdrive failed. At roughly $180 a piece, this is getting out of control. I wish I knew what I was doing wrong.

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