Friday, August 12

The long battle continues yet a day longer. Losing my strength, I keep fighting. I hear God’s trembling voice in my mind asking me, “If you don’t fight for me, then who will?” So for this I continue on. I look into the eyes of the enemies; hatred is consuming their very being. A flaming arrow is shot directly at my heart. A sudden sensation of agony takes over my body. I can’t move or even breathe. I look down to see that the arrow has gone directly into my chest. I wasn’t wearing my breastplate. I get up to continue fighting, the pain taking my every breath away. I look behind me to see to see a foreign object flying at me. Everything quickly flashes black, and I find myself lying on the ground. How much time has gone by? I open my eyes and the sun has gone down. The sound of the battle has seized. I sit up slowly, placing my hand on my head to find dried blood. I must not have been wearing my helmet. I look down at my chest to see half a broken arrow still there. I want badly to just give up, but again I hear God’s broken voice speaking to me, “You must keep fighting, I’m counting on you My Child.” I stand to find that the battle has not ended, just moved to another area. I begin to walk the journey to the new battle site when I look down and see that my foot is bleeding. I wasn’t wearing my boots. I wasn’t at all prepared for a battle like this. I sneak up on the enemy, and as I get close I pray a quick prayer, “God, I have no strength left, the pain I am in is more than I can handle. I have no reason other than you to keep fighting. You are my refuge and my strength. I give this battle to you, it’s too much for me to handle on my own.” I go into battle once again. I was more tired than before, and wanted nothing more than to just lay down my sword at the feet of Jesus and give up. But as I have already said, I felt as though I was in this battle for a reason. I turn my head this time to see another flaming arrow directed with exact precision at my heart. I quickly pull up my shield and am not harmed. I lift my eyes to see something else flying at my head, I duck, and the object misses me. Once again I am not harmed. I walk out of the battle this time with no new injuries. I find a safe place to sleep and I rest there for the remainder of the night. As I lay there awake unsure of the date or time, I allow my mind to reflect on the day. I pull out of my pocket a piece of paper and I just happened to have a pen too. This is what I wrote: Today was the longest day of my life. I shouldn’t even be alive after all the attacks I’ve seen and been a part of. I tried to fight a losing battle on my own. I found that there was a problem in the way I was fighting. It wasn’t that I was fighting a losing battle, but that I was fighting alone. I asked God to be my strength, I allowed him to move in and he provided for me the protection I needed. I truly was fighting a losing battle until I stopped fighting alone. Hey, that was really random but I just started typing and wa-la..i have written yet another short story..real quick.behind the story: The story is just portraying the fact that we enter a spiritual battle every day and aren’t prepared for it. I myself go into the battle every day…and don’t always let God help me. Sometimes we see attacks coming and do nothing to stop them. So yea…think about it and you’ll catch on…