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We often think of the weapons of warfare as being those things physically powerful, like flaming swords or the sound of machine guns firing. Spiritually, however, God’s greatest weapon of warfare is unlike anything the world possesses as a defensive or offensive weapon. Ephesians 6:17 says we are to equip ourselves with the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. This surely must be the most powerful weapon in God’s arsenal, isn’t it? But wait, we’ve forgotten something important about the ways of God; they are not our ways.
Jesus says in Matthew seven, broad is the road often traveled that leads to destruction, but narrow the road that leads to life. In other words, the ways of the world are contrary to God’s wisdom. Therefore, it only makes sense if we fight with weapons of war, then God must war with weapons of peace, right? If the first shall be last and the last made first like it says in Luke 13:30, then our way of thinking is upside down, is it not? So what is God’s greatest weapon of warfare? It’s something that can’t be created by anyone but God. It’s more precious than the silver or gold financing the deadliest weapons on planet earth, yet it’s the only thing that can guarantee the world’s survival.
God’s love, through the power of Jesus’ dying for your sin and rising again, is what gives you the ability to not only say to your neighbor I care, but to say to your enemy I forgive you. God’s love is not something generated from you, but through you; where you know God’s love in such an intimate way it fills you to overflowing. And when your cup of God’s unconditional love spills out on everyone around you, no matter if it be friend or foe, God’s love can go to every one you know and conquer the despair, depression, and destruction breeding the hate, envy, and misery the kingdom of heaven has overcome through Jesus, God’s one and only Son.
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