War

I have often thought about the war we are in, the war against evil, Satan, and sin. In this war are two factions: Christ’s or the devils. We are to pick which side we will align with by our actions, by so doing we also choose what our end stage is and show what our true goals are. One thing about this war that is very different from any other is that the victor has already been established and the leaders of both sides know this. Christ will win, there is no question, but Satan continues to try, why?

See this war is filled with countless battles and though the devil knows that he cannot win the war, it is his goal take as many battles as he can. And what do the battles look like, what are they? Well, they have 2 legs, 2 arms, and a torso, a head with 2 eyes, 2 ears, 1 mouth, and 1 nose. The battles are each and every person on this beautiful planet. The adversary’s goal is to make all of us stumble, give up, give in, and/or quit! He desires to have us, to take us, and bind us down!  As we follow his ways we are damned, that is we stop progressing. He is miserable and wants to sink all to his level.

This war is tough and our battles are hard, but with a belief in God we can “with surety hope for a better world” (Ether 12:4). Christ will uplift and strengthen us as we do what is expected like keep the commandments always remember him and take his name upon us. That isn’t to say that He makes it easy but He helps us grow to overcome all in our path. “Your path may be thorny, but Jesus is nigh you; His arm is sufficient, tho demons oppose.” (Hymn 266)



This is Fighting!



So what is you role in it? You must fight daily! We must “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men…, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end” (2 Nephi 31:20). Now as we do this there is a promise for which sounds pretty awesome. It is, “And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall” (Helaman 5:12) Don’t give up, because I know that you can do it if you just go for it!