Category: Today’s Armor

What He Sees… We have no problem hearing what the enemy says and then internalizing and accepting it. We do it all day long. Some do it better than others but most, if not all, of us do it. The enemy loves it, the enemy knows it and the enemy uses it to our great peril. We “hear it” then it moves into our heart and the next thing you know we are acting as if what the enemy said carries weight – it doesn’t. It’s simple to turn it…

Full of New Wine… Being familiar with the effects of “old wine” and what happens when one is “filled”, looking at being filled with new wine takes on a completely different view. When a person is filled with “old wine” or said another way – drunk – they tend to speak gibberish, sometimes incoherent words that mean nothing, go nowhere and are often repeated for no apparent reason. Being filled with ‘new wine’ can in fact make a person speak in a language that is not their own, but it…

Changing The World… When an empty vessel can be used to start a brushfire that begins changing the world it may be well that others mimic what has been done. If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us, no matter how much we tried. We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, we could…