Awaken soldier, awaken from your slumber, for there is a battle in our midst; the battle of the ages. Many a people are not aware, many desire to pay no heed to, but all have been set amongst the bloody battlefield despite their desires. Take up your armor, take up your shield, take up your sword, for a decision is to be made.
Contemplate every hurt contained within your life; your alcoholic father who strikes you, the pervasive depression continually haunting you, the termination of your mother’s life due to cancer, the malicious words of a spiteful peer, the boyfriend you gave your everything just for a broken heart in return, the belief that you are not good enough, pretty enough, perfect enough, all the times you have been rejected... We all have hurt that slowly accumulates over our lives, after all, we live in a fallen, broken, hurtful place; a battlefield. We are all injured by our adversary. He is not a strong opponent, he is not brave, but he is strategic. Very strategic. He is the utter definition of pride and self-love despite his disgusting self. He is so in love with his vileness that he hates everything and everyone else. He loathes us so much that he throws every weapon he has at us; alcoholic and abusive family members, haunting thoughts, cancer which overcomes someone well before they should be taken, wicked words, brokenness, untruthful beliefs, rejection, any weapon he possibly can to wound us, to hurt us, to break us down limb by limb. He utterly hates us. He is a very deceiving and manipulative foe, constantly morphing reality and playing mind games with our emotions. Instead of fighting him, he causes us to grow bitter towards reality and truth, instead of taking up our arms, he convinces us to give up the fight and instead of healing our wounds, he makes us believe it would be easier to simply hide them. Slowly we drift toward the wrong side of the battle without realizing it. We involve ourselves with alcoholism, lust, pride, materialism, people pleasing, drug abuse, love of idols, love of this world, of this battlefield… While we are trying to numb the hurt of the battle we are actually contributing to our adversary’s army, for numbness is what it feeds off of. Putting us to sleep is the ultimate numbness and ultimately his final goal for us. For that is when we become completely unaware of reality, that is when we are addicted to the morphine of this life that continually feeds his army, that is when we are no longer a threat, we are deactivated, unimportant, stomped out, shut down… We must realize that the things of this world that make us feel “better” or make us forget about our hurt are actually the very things feeding the same force which brought about the pain in the first place. It is a vicious circle that will continue to rotate unless we realize that it is going on, stand up, and fight it. There is a battle going on in this world. There is a good side and an evil side. By caving to alcoholism you are contributing to the alcoholic abusive father, by shooting that drug you are contributing to the disease of cancer, by gossiping we are contributing to the same force which made your boyfriend break your heart; it is all interconnected, and we must realize this fact of life if we want the evil to eventually be stomped out. Essentially, by resisting to talk ill of a peer you are fighting cancer, by not going out partying you are fighting against alcoholic and abusive parenting, by cutting out lust from your life you are fighting suicidal feelings, for you are no longer feeding the army of evil but fighting against it, which means you are fighting against every evil that could be found on this earth, this battlefield…
So awaken soldier, awaken from your slumber, for there is a battle in our midst; the battle of the ages. Do not remain unaware, do not ignore, for you have been set amongst the bloody battlefield despite your desires. Now take up your armor, take up your shield, take up your sword, for there is a decision to be made… Now are you going to fight for evil or for good? Will you feed the army of evil or fight it? Will you continue to slumber? Or will you WAKE UP?
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