On Spiritual Combat: Identifying The AdversarySample

Basic Training and Equipment

All around us every day, an unseen combat rages. It is invisible, yet we feel it in every aspect of our lives. It is a spiritual war. It is a battle for our souls and a desperate struggle for the survival of everything we love, from our children to our nation to our very civilization.

You cannot avoid this battle. You are in this spiritual combat whether or not you want it, because the enemy will most definitely come for you and yours. There is no escaping this enemy. There is only victory or death. Salvation or damnation.

Our enemy is evil. Indeed, our enemy is the very definition of the foulest conceivable evil, and this demonic foe never stops hurting, fighting, deceiving, cheating, and killing in an endless effort to destroy all that is dear to us.

Our enemy murders, physically and spiritually. He wishes to deprive us of our lives here on earth and (far worse) eternally in heaven. Our evil, eternal foe desires to widow our spouses, orphan our children, and fill our lives with sin, death, and despair. Our hearts, our homes, our families, our nation, even our entire civilization are at stake.

Ah, but fear not! Rejoice! For however evil and powerful our enemy may be, on our side is a force of sacrificial love that is far greater than any other force in the universe. Our Supreme Commander in this war is the one who created the universe. And he loves us.

Do you believe there is evil in this world? How can anyone deny it? Then you must believe there is also a powerful force for good at work in our lives. Isn’t it odd how some people can accept the presence of evil in this world, but they cannot accept God and his heavenly forces of good?