Battle over the Hearts and Minds

One reason why I admire Mohamed Gandhi, and Marten Luther King Junior is that they they choose not to fight the evil that was present with violence, but choose to fight the evil in our minds.

I heard a speaker talk about his interpretation of the last battle that John talks about in revelation and he interprets it as a figurative language. The battle as mentioned in revelation takes place at the centre of the world. A crucial strategic point that would control the world. He understood John to be saying that the last battle is over the hearts and minds of people. Where we all take a place.

Now I don't know if he is right but I think he makes some good points. The battle is not against people but it's one step deeper. The battle is over the hearts and minds of people.

We find this through out scripture.
King Hezekiah when he faces an overwhelming force of Assyrian coming to destroy him and Jerusalem prays to God "Now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you along, O Lord, are God."  Isaiah 37:20

Where would the western world be with out the battle over the hearts and minds of the people in the enlightenment age. No matter how hard rulers tried to snuff out revolutionaries the printing press proved the better weapon.

God is God

I have been struck lately how we humans seem to think it's all about us.
It is so easy to start thinking that God's blesses those that obey him, and doesn't bless those that don't but we find something else in the bible

Ecclesiastes 8:14
righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve.

I believe because God is calling us to something deeper, something more important that physical blessing. God is calling us into a relationship with him no matter what happens.

I have just finished a book called "The boy who came back from Heaven" and really liked this book. This is the words that the father Kevin received from an Angel in the nonfiction book

"Speak of Me,forMe, and about Me
Use Alex to show who I am
I have chesen him as a screen upon which to show Myself
I am unity, the trinity, a complete circle,
Your story will lead to praise an worship, ther willbe alter calls
Your bills are the least of My worries
I will be with you all the days of your life
I will speak to you
I will guide you
I am in you
I am about you, you be about Me
My love is unconditional
My vengeance is restricted for the holy
My apostles died for Me, will you die for Me?
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last."

What I learnt most while reading this book is that it's not about us. Miracles are not to save a person from death but for God's power to be shown to the world.

Read the book If you can!

God lead us,
God protect us,
God lead us to your green pastures,
God lead us to believe and trust in you
God I love you!