Ephesians 6:12   ‘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 in high places.’

DAILY READING – -•     Matthew 12:22-50; Leviticus 15-16; Proverbs 27

The American Civil War was fought between southern and northern states of the United States. The southern states didn’t want to be part of the United States any more because slavery was being outlawed, and they didn’t want to lose the right to keep slaves, so they decided to secede. But the northern states didn’t want the splitting of the United States. And when the issue could not be resolved, both sides went to war. During this war, a story is told of a man who could not decide on which side he wanted to fight on; whether for the North or the South. So he decided to play safe by seeming to agree with both warring sides. So he put on the coat of the army of the North and the trousers of the army of the South. However in the heat of the battle he got shot at from both sides. Since soldiers on either side couldn’t tell where he belonged, they also decided to play it safe by shooting him. .

This  story ‘illustrates what happens to the compromiser, the person who tries to live in two worlds.

James 4:4 says  “Friendship with the world is enmity with God. Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world   makes himself an enemy of God.”

In the journey of life, it is dangerous to try to walk in the middle of the road. You can get knocked down by vehicles from either side. You really have to make a choice, to either walk on the right side or the left side. 

Jesus said in Revelations 3:16, that you are going to choose to be either hot or cold. He said if anyone is lukewarm He will spew that person out of His mouth. Indeed in our lives, Christ has to be Lord of all or Lord of none. The truth is that we cannot serve two masters. We have to make our choice of who we will serve and where we will stand. As children of God we can’t afford to live a life of compromise. We need to make a full and total commitment to live for Christ and Christ alone. But then for many people their story is that ‘the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.’ Their experience is what Paul talks about in Roman 7:15 ‘For  what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I‘ 

The fact is that sin is a force. To overcome sin is a battle. And according to Ephesians 6:12 our battle is not against flesh and blood.  This is why we must engage the weapons of our warfare to overcome. And one sure weapon of victory is the blood of Jesus. The power of the blood of Jesus has provided everything we need to live a life of victory. 

Revelation 12;11  says ‘And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they did not love their lives to the death.’

By the blood we can overcome sin and avoid living a life of compromise. By the blood we have the power to live for Christ alone. let us therefore learn to plead the blood against the force of sin or any contrary thing contesting our glorious destiny. Indeed by the blood of the covenant we have been brought out of every water-less pit, including the pit of sin, sickness, poverty, ill favor etc. Truly by the blood we are set free. And whosoever the son of God has set free is free indeed. 

PRAYER: Father, I thank You for making me an overcomer in every battle of life.  Indeed by the power in the blood of Jesus I have overcome the force of sin and every contrary thing contesting my glorious destiny. in Jesus Name.

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For you to enjoy victory in The Kingdom of God, you need to develop a kingdom mind, that thinks in line with The Word of God. – WORDBITE 222.