The Will to Win

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness from on high. Eph 6.12

We are in a battle. And this battle is just a small part of the war. We will see only a small part of the entire struggle between God’s people on the earth now and the forces of spiritual wickedness that are loose in the world. But we are part of that struggle. We are warriors in the war against spiritual wickedness from on high. The wickedness is “from on high” because the source of this wickedness is of heavenly origin or nature.

How can this be? It is because the source of the wickedness is the fallen angels led by Lucifer, the Angel of Light (…for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light… II Chr 11.14). Each one of us is a soldier in this war. We are in a battle, whether or not we believe it. We are in a war, whether or not we choose to fight. Is it any wonder that we feel assaulted? Is it any wonder that we feel besieged by the evil that surrounds us?

So what happens when an army has soldiers who will not fight? What happens when an army has soldiers who do not even think they are at war? Can that army be effective? Can that army win? We must have the willingness to resist evil, to pick up the weapons God has given us. Without the willingness to use what God has given us, we will be overtaken individually by the deceptions of our adversary.

…take unto you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day… Eph 6.13