We are at War

I got this from in an email last night and thought I would share it. Its another extract from "Waking the Dead". Although I have read this book a couple of times, it always seems like a light bulb comes on when I get messages like this.... For those of you in the Seattle area, I also received an email from Bootcamp Northwest and they will be hold a 2 session discussion this Friday night at Overlake Christian Church in Redmond. Bootcamp Northwest puts on a retreat periodically (I attended last year here in WA ) based on the book "Wild At Heart". If you can make the sessions, I am sure you will walk away with some level of enlightenment.

(Waking the Dead, Pages 29 - 30)

The Second Eternal Truth brought to us comes like a broken message over the radio or an urgent e-mail from a distant country telling us that some great struggle or quest or battle is well under way. May even be hanging in the balance. When the four children stumble into Narnia, the country and all its lovely creatures are imprisoned under the spell of the White Witch and have been for a hundred years. In another story, Jack and his mother are starving and must sell their only cow. Frodo barely makes it out of the Shire with his life and the ring of power. In the nick of time he learns that Bilbo’s magic ring is the One Ring, that Sauron has discovered its whereabouts, and that the Nine Black Riders are already across the borders searching for the little hobbit with deadly intent. The future of Middle Earth hangs on a thread.

Again, this is exactly what the Scriptures have been trying to wake us up to for years. “Wake up, O sleeper . . . Be very careful, then, how you live . . . because the days are evil” (Eph. 5:14–16). Or as The Message has it: “So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times!” Christianity isn’t a religion about going to Sunday school, potluck suppers, being nice, holding car washes, sending our secondhand clothes off to Mexico. This is a world at war. Something large and immensely dangerous is unfolding all around us, we are caught up in it, and above all we doubt we have been given a key role to play. Do you think I’m being too dramatic?