Battle and Surrender

January 13, 2005 - We sang a couple of sings, including the Battle hymn of the Republic. We then read Psalm 46 in memory of the south east Asia tsunami victims. We had a good discussion about where God is during acts of nature like earthquakes and floods and about how often the catastrophy in lives is personal, not widespread and obvious like a tornado. When a single person suffers, like from addiction, is it not as terrible when a person is swept away in a flood?

We then talked about spiritual battle, the reality that there is a spiritual war going on for the future of people and their souls. We talked about always being aware of the battle. Then we talked about understanding how God is able to deliver us from evil and how we should remember that the battle belongs to God and we should have faith (not fear) in him to deliver us.