Defense wins championships

So many of us have the desire to become great. We work so hard at stepping forward and running with our strengths, but how many of us think about our weaknesses? Isn't it true that when your attacked it is usually at your weakest point? Maybe that is the real question? How many of us think that we are in a war daily? There is no question about it, Good vs Evil, The dominion of hell vs heaven, it is as real as you and me.  Many of us agree there is a heaven so naturally wouldn't there be a hell. Throughout the bible it talks about how God is fighting for us and saving us, but from what. When you step into what God has planned for your life and you make the personal commitment to follow Christ, you just signed up to be a member of the greatest battle in history. The battle for souls. Why is any of this important you ask? Well if there is a battle, shouldn't we be prepared? John 10:10 tells us that "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy...". That thief is Satan. His objective, to keep as many souls as he can from entering heaven. How does that affect us? Well isn't that our main goal, to bring people to see the Glory of God through his son Jesus Christ? If the answer to that question is yes then we must be prepared, we must know where Satan will attack us. Just like any fortress he will attack at our weaknesses.  He will use four main tools to do so deception, darkness, destruction, and division. Satan will find those places that we have been hurt the most, where we are emotionally vulnerable and he will lie to us, attack us and try to take away our worth. He will try to deceive you and twist the Truth in your life so you walk away from the power that God has for you in every situation. He will try to twist those situations in our lives where we face persecution and trials into a dark, dark places so we give up in those times. Then he will attack all those places in our lives where we turn to our other soldiers, our friends, our warriors in Christ and he will create division.  The bottom line is anything that is good, holy, true and pure, evil is coming after it and hard. We must know our weaknesses. We must know where we struggle and we must protect those places. How do we do that? First we must protect ourselves with truth through scripture truth about who God says that we are in HIM. Then we must continue to grow in those places and be intentional about strengthening and protecting the places in our lives, in our hearts that we are most vulnerable.  Have you ever heard the saying "You are only as strong as your weakest link"? I think that applies in our spiritual life as well. The beauty of it all is that God can still use those areas of weaknesses in our lives and turn it to greatness. It would be naive and foolish though to not step forward and protect our lives, protect what God wants to do through us.. Our goal is to win hearts and to win souls, but we can only do that if we are prepared and Ready.  Where are your weaknesses?