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The topic of the communion meditation today was the hostage situation in Russia this past week. The tale itself is horrific… over a hundred kids dead, shot in the back as they tried to run away. Just really heart-wrenchingly sad…

He briefly described the situation leading up to it. The tiny region of Chechnia (who knows how it’s spelled) wants freedom from Russia, but they know they can’t line up their army against Russia and take them on. So they take hostages as a leverage point… as a way to try and get what they want.

The line of the day was:

“Our battle is not against flesh and blood. Satan knows that he can not line up and take on God’s army, so he takes innocents hostage, and tries to get what he wants that way.”

I thought it was a cool glimpse of the Kingdom. It’s not about the stuff we see on the outside. Satan takes lots of us hostage everyday. Alchohol, drugs, sex, just beating up on our self-esteem, fear, wanting to fit in, our need for acceptance, homosexuality, pornography, materialism, etc, etc… THOSE THINGS are not our enemy. Satan is.

But thanks be to God, who give us the victory. We don’t need to be afraid, but we do need to have our eyes open to our fellow human beings being taken hostage every day by these evildoers (I think that was Bush’s word for it)

Pray for eyes to see these things, and for God’s intervention, and for a chance to be the tool He uses to intervene.

And things might get better.