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6/29/2007 |
I pray for the American troops. I pray for their safety. I pray for their return home. I pray for their families. I just can't bring myself to pray for the destruction of "our enemies". I can't bring myself to pray for what the world has described as "victory" over "our enemies." If Satan is our enemy, if we're to hate the sin but love the sinner, if Messiah shed his bled for the salavation for all, then what is victory?
I pray for justice. I pray for God's justice in this world. I am not a complete and total pacifist (though mostly, i'm a pacifist). I believe that God can use powerful nations and powerful armies to bring about his justice. I also believe he can use the tiniest of nations to bring about his justice.
I attended school with a minister, ten or so years older than me, who was reflecting back to the months leading up to the First Gulf War. He said that his perspective then, as it still is today, "We can send missionaries now or bombs later." I believe that we are to stand against evil. I don't know when military force is a necessary thing, but I know that the love of God is always a necessary thing. And I know that once God brought up out of tiny Israel the Messiah who overcame evil not by the sword but by the exact opposite.
Less than two days before we fly to Vienna. Less than two days.
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