Imagine if you lived in a literal war zone.  A place where you had to fear snipers, land mines, bombing raids targeted to cut off your essential supplies, a place where you had to always be on alert.  While thankfully that is not the physical reality in our surroundings, it is what the Bible teaches about the realm we live in right now spiritually speaking.

Wherever we try to build something positive and holy, the devil sets up artillery to shell us with negativity and soul pollution.  Ephesians 6:10-13 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places’.

One of the great liberties we have as image-bearers is that we get to choose what we pay attention to. We can change the channel. We can turn the channel off. We can displace the things that outrage us with the things that make us tender-hearted.