day no. 15,931: Christus vincit. Christus regnat. Christus imperat.

“There are so many Russians, and our country so small, where will we find room to bury them all?” -- Anonymous Finnish soldier commenting in 1939 on the Winter War

This is the kind of mindset Christians are called to carry internally and exhibit externally. Though we appear to be surrounded by ever increasing darkness, we remember its circumference increases only as a result of an ever expanding diameter of light.

“Canaan was full of giants, and so is the unbelieving world today. The greatness of the opposition is part of the point. This must never be used as an excuse on our part for whining about how big they are. They are supposed to be big. They are giants. Instead of worrying about how big they are—too big to fight—we should be rejoicing in the fact that they are too big to miss.“ — Douglas Wilson 

If the darkness can be felt in every direction, there is no direction in which our light cannot triumph.

"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away from us now! Now we can shoot at them from every direction.'” -- Chesty Puller

When surrounded by enemies, we can rejoice that we don't have to expend any of our resources attempting to hunt them down. They have all come to us. We are free to use all our energy on attacking them like Galaga.

Chesty Puller refused to call falling back a "retreat," preferring rather to call it, “attacking in a different direction."

We have been assured that the gates of hell cannot prevail against us. As such, we should employ Mad Eye Moody's "constant vigilance." Every move is part of an attack strategy. We are not retreating or cloistering away and leaving the world to itself. God has not placed us here to leave the world alone. We are to manifest His Kingdom by moving in grace through faith expecting to see His Kingdom come and His will be done on His earth as it is in His Heaven.

Matthew 16:18
I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Some want to live within the sound
Of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop,
Within a yard of hell.
― C.T. Studd

By all hell's host withstood;
We all hell's host o'erthrow;
And conquering them,
Through Jesus' blood;
We still to conquer go.
-- Charles Wesley

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Christus vincit.
Christus regnant.
Christus imperat.
Saecula Saeculorum.
Amen.

Christ conquers.
Christ reigns.
Christ rules.
World without end.
Amen.