The Christian's Daily Warfare.
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Princes combat with flesh and blood; Christians wrestle with principalities and powers. Their wars give days of truce; ours not a minute of cessation. Conditions of peace there may cause retreat; nothing but death here can raise the siege. Kings, if overcome, may save themselves by flight; but Christians may as soon fly from themselves, as from their enemies.
Whatever makes a battle dangerous, appears in this spiritual battle—whether deceptiveness, potency, cruelty, or perpetuity. Not only the powers of earth—but all the forces and stratagems of hell are opposed to your soul. So that a Christian is not in a garrison of rest—but in a field of conflict, and cannot let his hands fall—but Amalek prevails. Not to be a conqueror—is to be a prisoner; not to win the field—is to lose the soul. Carnal-security will wound you; yielding kill you; nothing but victory can crown you!
Therefore, watch as for your life; fight as for your soul; the time will come, when the enemies you see today, you shall see no more forever; when you shall lay down your sword, and take up your palm, and signalize your victory in glory forever!
What though we read of the potency and policy of our enemies, and grievously experience it—yet how glorious we shall one day be, when, in the strength of Christ, we shall have overcome those enemies! Though my assaults be many, my enemies mighty—yet if God strengthens me, I have enough to comfort me; for the greater my enemy—the more glorious my victory; and the more glorious my victory—the more triumphant my glory!