I was reading a favorite blogger, Dr. Richard Beck, who today wrote about our need as followers of Jesus Christ to "Be Alert!" In his post, Beck concluded,
In short, there is the steady drumbeat in the Scriptures calling us to mental preparedness, alertness, watchfulness, and vigilance. Our mental life is contested territory. Our thoughts are a battleground.
My mind looks like the so-called "No Man's Land" between entrenched forces in World War I, pockmarked from continuous artillery barrages, the pits partly submerged with water, blood, and guts or rotting corpses, tangles of barbed wire and tank traps and unexploded bombshells.
And yet every day, He clears a path for Himself to walk between the warring forces to bring and to make the Peace of Christ.
Hallelujah!