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The word “wrestle” is in Ephesians 6:12. If read by itself, that Verse sounds like a riddle, making one wonder why ‘Who are we?’ isn’t added to the end of it. But if you read the three Verses before it, one would know who we are.
Since, according to many versions of the Bible, 2 Timothy 3:16 means that all Scripture is the Breath of God, and even accepting that other versions have the Verse saying that all Scripture is written via God’s inspiration, the word “wrestle” is part of God’s Lexicon one way or the other.
Can you think of a more appropriate word to describe our relationship with Satan? Satan is evil in God’s Eyes, while we strive to be good because of our faith and love in God and our neighbor. But we find that the longer we live on earth, the more we realize that things in black and white are overpowered by things in the grey area. It’s not always easy to determine what is good and what is evil, or, in terms of earthly logic, what is right and what is wrong.
A simple question whose answer is complicated: If the ends justify the means, and the ends happens to be right, does that mean what we do to bring us to the ends is right as well? Would God forgive us if we did something wrong but in doing so, accomplished something that was right? Take for example what the U.S. did to put an end to World War II against the Japanese. The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on two cities in Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, men, women and children who at that moment were not a threat to the U.S. That’s pre-meditated murder, which is forbidden by the Sixth Commandment.
In and of itself, there wouldn’t be a righteous person on earth who wouldn’t think that what the U.S. did was pure evil. But in doing what the U.S. did, it ended World War II with Japan, thus saving the lives of half a million people from both sides who were engaged in fighting eachother, enabling those with families and other aspirations to continue their lives along with others who weren’t involved with the fighting, and being productive members of society. Is that not a righteous end to the evil which brought it about?
Seems that Satan must’ve had a good laugh at our expense as he continues to try to be a thorn in God’s Side. The presence of Satan on earth is forever causing us to think whether what we did, are doing or are planning to do would be good in God’s Eyes or would be evil that Satan would approve of.
There isn’t just Satan to contend with. We have to contend with his influence over those who would deliberately or invariably act in his name; those who cannot resist the metaphysical, symbolic and spirited forces emanating from Satan. If those same people were to act out of goodness, would we be concerned about their behavior? The problem with our fighting Satan is that no sooner does he and all the spirits and forces he conjures up ceases possessing a person upon their death, than he’s ready to move onto the next one as they’re born. It’s a never-ending battle we have with Satan. The wrestling part each of us is engaged in involves determining whether we are categorically doing something that is good or is evil; or whether the goal should be to do something which turns out to be good for others, even though the thing we immediately contemplate doing is evil in and of itself. In terms of wrestling, the world is a wrestling cage from which we can check out any time we want, but we can never leave. The wrestlers are us and evil, with one fall to each of us and no time limit.
Since, according to many versions of the Bible, 2 Timothy 3:16 means that all Scripture is the Breath of God, and even accepting that other versions have the Verse saying that all Scripture is written via God’s inspiration, the word “wrestle” is part of God’s Lexicon one way or the other.
Can you think of a more appropriate word to describe our relationship with Satan? Satan is evil in God’s Eyes, while we strive to be good because of our faith and love in God and our neighbor. But we find that the longer we live on earth, the more we realize that things in black and white are overpowered by things in the grey area. It’s not always easy to determine what is good and what is evil, or, in terms of earthly logic, what is right and what is wrong.
A simple question whose answer is complicated: If the ends justify the means, and the ends happens to be right, does that mean what we do to bring us to the ends is right as well? Would God forgive us if we did something wrong but in doing so, accomplished something that was right? Take for example what the U.S. did to put an end to World War II against the Japanese. The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on two cities in Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, men, women and children who at that moment were not a threat to the U.S. That’s pre-meditated murder, which is forbidden by the Sixth Commandment.
In and of itself, there wouldn’t be a righteous person on earth who wouldn’t think that what the U.S. did was pure evil. But in doing what the U.S. did, it ended World War II with Japan, thus saving the lives of half a million people from both sides who were engaged in fighting eachother, enabling those with families and other aspirations to continue their lives along with others who weren’t involved with the fighting, and being productive members of society. Is that not a righteous end to the evil which brought it about?
Seems that Satan must’ve had a good laugh at our expense as he continues to try to be a thorn in God’s Side. The presence of Satan on earth is forever causing us to think whether what we did, are doing or are planning to do would be good in God’s Eyes or would be evil that Satan would approve of.
There isn’t just Satan to contend with. We have to contend with his influence over those who would deliberately or invariably act in his name; those who cannot resist the metaphysical, symbolic and spirited forces emanating from Satan. If those same people were to act out of goodness, would we be concerned about their behavior? The problem with our fighting Satan is that no sooner does he and all the spirits and forces he conjures up ceases possessing a person upon their death, than he’s ready to move onto the next one as they’re born. It’s a never-ending battle we have with Satan. The wrestling part each of us is engaged in involves determining whether we are categorically doing something that is good or is evil; or whether the goal should be to do something which turns out to be good for others, even though the thing we immediately contemplate doing is evil in and of itself. In terms of wrestling, the world is a wrestling cage from which we can check out any time we want, but we can never leave. The wrestlers are us and evil, with one fall to each of us and no time limit.
