On Thursday morning I saw a few minutes of unedited video taken by Mike and Libby Wild of the Wano people, and in one segment we saw a Wano man (before he was converted) fighting with his wives in the Wilds' front yard. It was quite a scrap and, at one point, they were sort of wrestling! That set me to thinking about the subject of fighting or wrestling, and I recalled Ephesians 6.
There in verses 10--20, the apostle Paul gives instructions for spiritual fighting and his assumption is that there will be battles to be waged against dark powers, waged "in the strength of [the Lord's] might" while wearing His armor (vs. 10-11). Then in verse 12: "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."
So we are called to be wrestlers with strong foes, but not nearly as strong as our God who provides us his mighty strength and armor! We are called to wrestle! As I write this for Going Deeper at 10:57 A.M. on August 25, I am greatly helped by the Scripture of Ephesians 6 as I wrestle.
Join me in wrestling, for the glory of God and the advance of the gospel of Christ!
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