I was sitting in my apartment Sunday
night with my roommates watching TV when the news report came on,
triumphantly announcing the death of Osama Bin Laden. We all knew we
were watching history and we all knew that it was probably a good
thing that this terrorist cell leader was dead so that he couldn’t
hurt anyone else. But for the last few days I’ve been processing how
I’ve felt on a personal level at the death of a man that changed our
country forever.
In the midst of these thoughts and questions
I was reminded of Ephesians 6:12:
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.
I
love this passage because during my time on the World Race it really
helped me through some of the hard things I had to see. With all the
hardship I was exposed to, this passage helped me in my search for
what “the problem� is with this world.
The truth is we
are the ones that bring the kingdom of hell onto earth with the
things that we choose to say and the things that we choose to
do…and even the things we choose not to say and choose not to do.
And God never justifies that, that’s why Christ had
to die. But he also never saw us as “the problem”, that’s
also why Christ chose to die.
Ephesians 6:12 tells us
that our true foe is not physical but spiritual, which can be very
confusing. But everything in the spiritual shows itself in the
natural. Kill the embodiment of evil and evil will find another
body. I support our governments decision, but we need to take stock
of our “victory�. Is this really a victory? Or are we fighting
the wrong battle?
