War Is Hell
Today I ran across a quote by Winston Churchill that seems particularly relevant to my life: “Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer master of the policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.” I find myself guilty of believing that the battle of my sin nature has been won and expecting my war against flesh in this life to be smooth and easy. I find myself battered against the tides of conflict and flattened by the hurricanes in my life, and I have been bewildered by them because I thought (falsely, in pride) that I was either knowledgeable enough or strong enough to withstand them. I think I need to remind myself (yet again) of some scripture that I know. The following passage is from I Peter 4:12-19 (NASB): Beloved, do not be surprised at t