The best offense is a good defence?

How often we here this quote in the world of sport, and it is true a team cannot win if they cannot score, defence is key. However, let us not forget them importance of attacking, while the above may be true it is also as true to say a team will not win if they do not score, I am talking about the offence, we mustn’t forget the necessity of attack if you hope to win, because without it all you can hope for it a tie.

I’m not, however, talking about sport today, I am writing to remind us all of the importance of attacking for the faith. We often hear defend the faith, which is undoubtedly something we need to do especially in this culture of death. However if all we do is defend how can we win? The best we can hope for is a tie. We need to be ready to take a stand and attack. We see in our culture the poison Satan has produced, it is obvious he has infiltrated our defence so clearly merely defending is not enough, after all it's not called the spiritual battle for nothing. In a war if all one side did was hold out their shield and never raised a weapon to fight they would eventually lose. This is evident in our world, and even though Jesus won the war by dying on the cross there are still many battles raging around us.

I'm sure we've all seen movies when a girl has been hurt or taken and her father or boyfriend go after her, fight for her, take a stand and vow that her life is greater than his own, that he would fight to the death if he must. Jesus did this for us; he fought for his bride the Church. He fought to the death and now it's our turn to return the favour. If we love Christ like we proclaim we have to show it, we must FIGHT for the faith. Throughout history martyrs are numerous people died excruciating deaths because they fought for Christ, because they loved him. Looking around us we can see that simply defending the faith is not enough because our defence has wavered and broken and our society has succumbed to the ways of death, of Satan.

How do we fight? Prayer is first and foremost, everyday for peace and an end to the culture of death. We stand and declare our faith every chance we get when we are asked about our faith do not shy away, as we are often inclined to do because we want to avoid the awkwardness, myself included. We refuse to participate in the enemies work and strive constantly to help others and ourselves become more like Christ.

We are Christ's hands and feet and we must stand up for him, if we love him we must fight for him because love is sacrifice. After all Satan fights for his kingdom, so stand up Christians and embrace your cross and fight for the Church, Jesus went first and now if our turn to fight.

AMDG