Pastors Pen

The Battle

Nicky Gumbel, Vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton, and developer of the Alpha course, said in my Devotional this week,

“The Christian life is a Battle. I have been following Jesus for four decades. As I look back at these years, they have been years of great blessing – more than I could have asked or imagined. At the same time, there have been many challenges and obstacles. There have been very few periods when I have not been facing some kind of battle.”

Would you agree with this? I know that when our team went to Malawi, we all knew there was a battle going on. Every page of Nik Ripken’s book The Insanity of Obedience shouted, “There is a battle going on!”

But what about you and I? Is it because we live in this great nation that we are not in a battle? Or are we just not as aware?

Today, it is good to know that our God is with us. He has never left us alone. Praise God!

God bless,
Dony

Pastor Dony Johnson