Tuesday May 26 WAR

Faith – war – LIGHT; seeing courage in conflict |

for the Lord your God is the One who is going with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’ (Deuteronomy 20:4)

It is an intensely iconic advancement for a believer to show courage alongside the integrity of being oneself.  Success in being myself is a venture that alternates between putting others first, a profoundly Christian ideal, and putting one’s accountable thoughts and behaviours on the front burner.  The conflict that defines the human quest for significance is a kind of necessary schizophrenia. We cannot help being ourselves, and faith, not fantasy shines a bright light into the tunnel of our daily conflict.

Hope – war – LIGHT; trusting endurance |

A great deal of absurdity comes to light when people express hope and positive thinking.  Hope gets erased because flipping the vision switch from eyes to mind erases the reality where we are and we lay hold of what’s to come.

Love – war – LIGHT; embracing reconciliation |

God puts war(s) on sabbatical and we seem not to notice.  Life’s cycles are inevitable, but who would have thought that love’s best regards could come in a personal humiliation and mediation? Christ’s submission to “loving… to the end” is rare and super-effective warfare.

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He would depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. (John 13:1)

Death – war – LIGHT; becoming silence after struggle |

My idleness was disrupted and I was sent on my journey when the WAY was paved in Christ’s flesh.  I stood corrected when the TRUTH revealed his treasure. I came to life when LIFE died.

50. And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and gave up His spirit. 51. And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. 52. Also the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; (Matthew 27:50-52)