On Christmas afternoon I thought this through     but wrote nothing down.

The Grand War of Aggression was declared and the initial “shot across the bow” was levied on the day we celebrate with gifts and mirth. A day in which we remember and hopefully elevate the central figure in the Aggression.

He has most times been portrayed and pictured as a mild person, with a probable soft nature. The world has framed Him as almost effeminate. He possessed carpenters hands yet the world has painted Him to have a grandmotherly nature. Most movies have shown Him as one one who could be run over easily.

Yet He is not.

He is none of what the preceding  paragraph refers to.

He came not to attack you. 

He came to attack no one and no thing He had a hand in creating.

He came to wage a War of Aggression against the one who wages aggression and destruction against those who have been given life and breath and blood by His Hand.

When you read of Him you read His Words of Peace, Love, Forgiveness, Optimism, Opportunity and Joy. His Words to His Creatiion are intended to breed those traits and lead them to live as He lived.

And lives.
Understand this though, He is a warrior Who came  to destroy completely the the one who rose against  Him, the one who tempted Him and who tempts you.
He came on the day we celebrate to bless and encourage the created ones but to “draw and quarter”  the one who seeks our destruction.

In Rome, every statue of Saint Peter has  a set of keys in his hand. Every statue of the Apostle Paul  has him grasping a sword.

What did Paul write that the “sword”  represented?

He wrote, “The Sword of The Spirit which is The Word of God”.

In John 1:1, he also wrote,…..”In the beginning was The Word and The Word was with God…and The Word was God”.

“The Word” Paul writes of is Jesus.

Jesus is the SWORD.

He came as a SWORD to cut the heart and life out of and away from our common enemy and to embarrass, defeat and expel the foe from the place made for us and damn the foe and His like to the darkness and despair made for them.

If you think He came to speak nice and peaceful words….He did speak prolific and life-inspiring words.

But, know this, as you breath the air He made and allows you to take into the lungs He created for and placed within you…

He is The Weapon of Aggression 

He is The Weapon which the enemy fears.

He is The Weapon we must wield.

His Purpose was and is to empower us, His soldiers, and to lead and example the way to wage Aggression against the Foe.
And He means to wage Aggressive War.

He did when He was tempted.

He did when He was laid in a tomb.

His death was strategic to trap His enemy and His Resurrection was the defeat that signaled the War would soon be over.

Similar to the game last Monday night…..the winning team struck the death blow … yet one second remained on the clock. It was a short delay of the inevitable.

We are walking in that short delay.

We are to be trained soldiers continuing the Aggression.

Walk in the Words and Strength of Example He gave and gives us.

Wield the SWORD.

Wage the Aggression.