"You already know what might be, and that’s exactly why you cannot be satisfied with what is. Stop telling yourself it’s holy to sit still. Sweat and blood can be sanctified too."
The mindset of being in a spiritual war has been resonating with me for a year or more at this point. For some reason (maybe the Protestat that I am) I've lived most of my life treating spiritual realities and physical realities as separate things when they clearly are not. Reality is reality and there is no true separating the material from the immaterial, no matter how much we may wish for that to be the case at times.
Thanks for this word of encouragement. I still need the push at times to remember that evil is very real and very present in this world, and in making disciples of Christ we must be ready to be opposed and ready to defend.
Cool song too! Looks like I have a new artists to check out.
”You are a being born for war.” This. As years pass and I’ve realized that things will not get easier (we can on the other hand get stronger if we, like you encourage us, prepare ourselves for the battle). And I sometimes wonder what battle we will face there beyond and I hope I will be strong enough.
Thank you for always finding the words and sharing them with us.
Hi Zack - apologies, just leaving a comment here to make up for the fact Substack doesn’t have a DM feature yet!
For the next week I was going to recommend one of your Substacks on BTMU, as one of the paid subscriber benefits, but wondered if you’d prefer it was Theofuturism or Pulp, Pipe, and Poetry?
"You already know what might be, and that’s exactly why you cannot be satisfied with what is. Stop telling yourself it’s holy to sit still. Sweat and blood can be sanctified too."
The mindset of being in a spiritual war has been resonating with me for a year or more at this point. For some reason (maybe the Protestat that I am) I've lived most of my life treating spiritual realities and physical realities as separate things when they clearly are not. Reality is reality and there is no true separating the material from the immaterial, no matter how much we may wish for that to be the case at times.
Thanks for this word of encouragement. I still need the push at times to remember that evil is very real and very present in this world, and in making disciples of Christ we must be ready to be opposed and ready to defend.
Cool song too! Looks like I have a new artists to check out.
Beautifully penned as always sir 🙏🏼
”You are a being born for war.” This. As years pass and I’ve realized that things will not get easier (we can on the other hand get stronger if we, like you encourage us, prepare ourselves for the battle). And I sometimes wonder what battle we will face there beyond and I hope I will be strong enough.
Thank you for always finding the words and sharing them with us.
Hi Zack - apologies, just leaving a comment here to make up for the fact Substack doesn’t have a DM feature yet!
For the next week I was going to recommend one of your Substacks on BTMU, as one of the paid subscriber benefits, but wondered if you’d prefer it was Theofuturism or Pulp, Pipe, and Poetry?