day no. 16,576: Christ does not curtsy

Hosea 2:18

And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

The battle will by the grace of God someday be over... but not a day before. Until then, we battle. We do not make peace with evil, we resist it. We assail its strongholds and avail ourselves of every opportunity to take captives. We demolish the demonic as long as it stands. We do not cower or bow before lesser gods. Christ does not curtsy. He does not flatter the foul. He gets to the point and the tip of His tongue is the tip of the sword. 

We will lie down in safety if we have stood up in sanctity. We look forward to laying our weapons down by brandishing them in the meantime. We do not forsake the trial for the treaty. We cannot come to terms with Cain. We fight until we die so that in dying we might live to fight no more. 

So keep your sword sharp and clean and continue to hack at the harvest until the season is passed.