But what if, underneath the clean (or not so clean) shirt and shadowed eyes, lay the heart of a warrior? A warrior who warred with the weapons that are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds (2 Cor 10:4) - because they know that the weapons of that realm far surpass the most lethal of weapons fashioned by human knowledge.
What would change if they knew that they, like Aaron, were called to stand between the living and the dead (Numbers 16:42-48)? How would they live if they discovered that life wasn't about staying comfortable but to bring comfort to the broken (Matt 10:8)? What if they, like Nehemiah, were the ones to care deeply enough about the broken walls of a family, community or nation, then station themselves in the midst of the debris with both sword and chisel to defend and rebuild it (Nehemiah 4:17-18)?
For we are all called with a high calling and are either in the midst of being prepared for our destiny, or are already in it but have not yet seen the gleam waiting beneath the murk of grey - or once did see it but sank in the miry sloughs of life and lost sight of it still waiting behind the hills.
Life is messy and dirty. That's why it needs the Saviour housed in your heart. The world is pervaded by the infection of death in all its forms and many are in danger of being swallowed up by it. This is where you come in: the Saviour King who came to live in your heart has already won the war against death and wants all the weary and broken restored to full strength. He wants light to overthrow the every shade of grey, to throw out death where it still stubbornly holds ground. To do that, He'll restore you, and in the process enable you to restore others.
In a world crawling with the battles between the Kingdoms of Light, and of Darkness, you are a warrior whether you think you are called for it or not.
He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor... Isaiah 59:16
I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. Ezekiel 22:30
