Ephesians 6:13 (NIV)
The Bible tells us that
believers will be opposed by spiritual forces of darkness and evil in heavenly
places. Some people think that
statements like these are simply unsophisticated holdovers from a primitive
worldview that we in the 21st century would be naïve to accept.
However, if the biblical
worldview is correct, we must then somehow respond to that reality.
I find it interesting that
most people do believe in the existence of evil, but when they attempt to
explain its existence apart from the biblical worldview they flounder.
There appears to an admission that there exists a power of evil that
transcends simple survival of the fittest if one is an atheist, or simple self
serving sin if one is a Christian. It
is also true, it seems to me, that neither atheism nor Christianity cleansed
from belief in objective evil has any power to deal with evil.
Neither of those two worldviews has been successful in muting it’s
power.
Therefore verse
13 implies that in order to stand strong against evil we
need help. Our weapons are not our
will, our best efforts at trying to be good, better education, a stronger
military or better laws, rather they are practices which connect us to God,
whose power subdues the power of darkness.
These “weapons” include the simplest and most powerful of things:
bible reading, obedience, daily reliance on Christ rather than myself, prayer,
knowing and believing the Gospel, trust, faith, and staying tuned into and
obedient to God’s “spiritual GPS”.
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