Risk is inherent in war and is involved in every mission. Risk is equally common to action and inaction. Risk may be related to gain; greater potential gain often requires greater risk. The practice of concentrating combat power toward the main effort necessitates the willingness to accept prudent risk elsewhere. However, we should clearly understand that the acceptance of risk does not equate to the imprudent willingness to gamble the entire likelihood of success on a single improbable event.
Risk is inescapable. There will be risk. There is always either the risk of doing it or the risk of not doing it. The opportunity missed by not taking a risk and the opportunities for disaster taking a risk invites. But our enemy's attempts to destroy us are also an opportunity for us to inflict damage upon them.
Christianity is not merely defense. It is not just holding the line with a goal line defense to keep the ball in front of us while giving up as little yardage as possible. When the enemy runs a play against us, they are attempting to inflict damage, advance their agenda, impose their will and come out ahead. But they are taking a risk in doing so. In hiking the ball, they are opening themselves up to losing yardage they have already gained. The quarterback steps back before he can step forward, the ball is observed to be losing yardage before it can gain.
Instead of merely sitting back on our heels attempting to hold their ball from advancing, we could send the house on a hunt for snot bubbles. We could blitz and advance our agenda. Their attempt to injure us contains within itself an opportunity for us to injure them.
Risk is involved either way and for both sides. In order for them to advance, they must risk losing ground. Our defense can gain us ground. We must see their risk and take advantage of it by taking one ourselves and say, along with our sister Esther, "If I perish, I perish." (Esther 4:16).
"Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they'll walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.” ― N.D. Wilson, Dandelion Fire
We must risk our lives without knowing the outcomes, yet knowing the how come. We know the why behind what we're doing - God's glory and our neighbor's good. We don't blitz because we know it's going to work out, we send the house because it is an opportunity to advance our agenda, impose our will and see the kingdom advanced in the direction of our end zone and end goal... everything subdued to Jesus.
Hebrews 2:8-9
Now in putting everything in subjection to him (Jesus), He (God) left nothing outside His control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to Him. 9 But we see Him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
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