day no. 15,653: a reality fixed, not mixed

In reading The Art of Manliness, Manvotionals: Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the 7 Manly Virtues by Brett McKay, I came across the following quote,

"What would life be without fighting, I should like to know? From the cradle to the grave, fighting, rightly understood, is the business, the real, highest, honestest business of every son of man. Every one who is worth his salt has his enemies, who must be beaten, be they evil thoughts and habits in himself or spiritual wickedness in high places, or Russians, or Border-ruffians, or Bill, Tom, or Harry, who will not let him live his life in quiet till he has thrashed them... The world might be a better world without fighting, for anything I know, but it wouldn't be our world; and therefore I am dead against crying peace when there is no peace, and isn't meant to be. I'm as sorry as any man to see folk fighting the wrong people and the wrong things, but I'd a deal sooner see them doing that, than that they should have no fight in them." -- Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days

The world is a place of enmity by the will of God.

He placed enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of Eve.

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her Seed;
it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise His heel.

There will be fighting.

It is inescapable.

You are fighting. Whether you like it or not, you're fitted out for a uniform. If you imagine you are not fighting, you are merely fighting for the wrong team. You've joined the enemy ranks and stand opposed to God and His people. No one fights for Christ by accident, but many fight against Him without knowing it. The enmity is there -- fixed, inexorable, immovable, indomitable.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Good and evil cannot mix. They push and push back respectively, but they do not mingle. Good men may go rogue and cross the line or God may convert and recruit evil men to cross over from death to life, but never do the salt shaker and the sugar bowl mix.