This past week a few things hit me and I allowed a little bit of crazy to set in. I got a little selfish, a little scared and a little crazy. Getting back to South Carolina on Saturday I felt these things increased - especially in my interactions with my boyfriend.
I hope I am not alone in having one of those days (or weeks). I woke up this morning and felt like a different person. I felt sane. There's really no other way to describe it. I thought through some of my actions/reactions over the past week and thought "Yeah, that was a little bit (or whole lot) of crazy." The other thought that quietly came up is this - spiritual warfare still happens.
I know the whole phrase "spiritual warfare" is thought of as an overseas thing - where demons are exorcized or something - but I feel we (I included) neglect to recognize that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood but against powers and spiritual forces (Eph. 6:12). When we neglect the reality of spiritual warfare in our lives we miss out - we miss out on some of the causes of our problems, but even more on the power to combat them. If we seek to solve everything on our own in our flesh we will not have the power.
When I'm getting a little crazy or freaking out over something it must not be my flesh that seeks to battle these things - I must learn to bring them before God and seek his heart and wisdom in the matter.
Though we live in a world of the seen, we must remember that our battle is not with the seen alone. We must battle the unseen forces that seek to sway us from obediently following Jesus to have victory.
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