War
John Elderidge in Waking the Dead said,
"…we’ve heard a bit about original sin, but not nearly enough about original glory… we were once more than we are now… (our) glory has been the object of a long and brutal war… We arm ourselves by getting a good, solid grip on our situation, by getting some clarity on the battle in our lives… Until we come to terms with war as the context of our days we will not understand life. We will misinterpret 90% of what is happening around us and to us. It will be very hard to believe that God’s intentions toward us are life abundant; it will be even harder not to feel somehow we are blowing it. Worse, we will begin to accept some really awful things about God… Jesus warned that a thief would come to steal, kill and destroy. How come we don’t think that the thief then actually steals, kills and destroys? You won’t understand your life, you won’t see clearly what has happened to you or how to live forward from here, unless you see it as a battle. A war against your heart… the glory that’s been held back."
