For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)
To Become Truly Human – The Fighting Series – Part 4
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We fight against each other in so many different ways. Jostling and hustling for our worthiness, success, prominence; to be seen and noticed, to be picked and chosen. We struggle within ourselves and against others, wrestling for our place in the world and our own sense of security and belonging; a patch of ground, both spiritually and physically, to call our own. These battles grow and take wings. They have become, over the ages and today, conflicts between nations, violent wars, despots controlling tribes and people groups, extremists killing and murdering to advance their brand of power and control… We wrestle and war and struggle against each other when all along, the real fight is the one within.
Frederick Buechner said,
“This other war is the war not to conquer, but the war to become whole and at peace inside our skins. It is a war not of conquest now but of liberation because the object of this other war is to liberate that dimension of selfhood which has somehow become lost, that dimension of selfhood that involves the capacity to forgive and to will the good not only of the self but of all other selves. This other war is the war to become a human being. This is the goal that we are really after and that God is really after. This is the goal that power, success, and security are only forlorn substitutes for. This is the victory that not all our human armory of self-confidence and wisdom and personality can win for us – not simply to be treated as human but to become at last truly human.” – The Magnificent Defeat, Frederick Buechner. Harper Collins.
To become truly human. Worthy, beloved, accepted.
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Written by Liz Milani
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