Comments on: Ping Pong Over the Abyss (Graces and Mercies) http://hendersonhome.net/Tom/ping-pong-over-the-abyss-graces-and-mercies/ The trials, tribulations, victories and unexplained events of a family called The Hendersons. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pablo http://hendersonhome.net/Tom/ping-pong-over-the-abyss-graces-and-mercies/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Pablo Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:34:00 +0000 http://hendersonhome.net/Tom/?p=62#comment-83 Yikes!

I hope that I wasn’t the close fried that said something callous. Sometimes I’m a bit oblivious like that.

*sigh*

Thomas, get out of my head! I don’t know how many times I have had this same kind of conversation, albeit with slightly different topspin.

We all want to be David with the Goliath story but without the Uriah/Bathsheba (spelling?) subplot. We want to be unshakable in our belief that God will protect and defend us against assault from outside ourselves, but we constantly get tripped up when the assault comes from within ourselves. We feel confident with God’s help in wielding the weapons of this world against obvious adversaries, but we falter so quickly in wielding the weapons of God’s world (primarily prayer) in spiritual warfare.

It may not always be so, but more days than not, the real test is the war within ourselves against ourselves, or against the portions that we least like to acknowledge–greed, fear, lust, anger, pride. St. Paul bids us put to death all that is not Christ in ourselves so that we might find Christ waiting for us in the end.

It’s never easy, but as a wise man once said, sometimes the victory is in the struggle itself, not the outcome.

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