Lifelong Battle/Sacred Marriage

Revelation 16:14

For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

This life is a battle. The first question is, which side will you be on? You will be fighting for your god(God). Will it be for the God of the Universe, the Creator, or will it be for yourself and your flesh or whatever other god it may be? The second question is, will you be ready? As Christians, we are called to be workers that study to ourselves approved (worthy) (2 Timothy 2:15). How much time do we spend studying? How much time do we spend getting orders from our King? Seeking His guidance and strength? The effects of not spending time with God is evident. When you separate yourself from Him, you will draw closer to sin, closer to idolatry, closer to rebellion, closer to bondage. We truly separate ourselves from our God. We move away, not Him. So often we find ourselves or others in dark places, places of brokeness, places of shame, places of loneliness, often times left to shout out to God “where are you,” feeling that God has left them. The thing is, many times we end up in those spots because we have walked away. We have drifted off, most likely gradually, but we walked away from God and begin to feel the repercussions of it and feel his absence and fall into sin. Though this is a majority of the situations, there are times like Job experienced, times that you haven’t walked away, but you need to be tried, you need to be refined, you need to be purified by God. It is a test of your love for Him, not His love for you. His love never changes, but He wants proof that yours is firm, that whether good or bad, you will love Him and seek Him. The Christian life is echoed throughout society. Marriage itself is a direct echo of the Christian’s commitment to God and visa versa. To love Him regardless of situations, to spend time with Him, to seek to please Him. The problem is, we fail miserably at this in life. We seek other pleasures. We say that His satisfaction is not enough for us and that we need sin to find pleasure, we need to worry to succeed... The list goes on and on. We have been unfaithful in this marriage to God, He never has been unfaithful, He is always there. But family, I raise this because often we think of our relationship with God as a friendship. It’s a marriage. It is a lifelong commitment. It is a promise to spend time with Him and to grow with Him everyday. We are to ABIDE in God. We are to become imitators of Him. We are to echo His nature. We are to be holy as He is holy (I Peter 1:16). 

Which side do we choose? 

And are we faithful to our eternal commitment with God? May we strive to do our best at it.

-Ryan