What I think.........

Ok, so here it goes. In light of the events that have transpired over the last few days, I have held my tongue, but no more. Truthfully the past few days have been hard, very hard for myself as well as the people at Revolution. I have gone through every emotion I can think of, and now I'm ready to move beyond all that. You see, God has spoken to me today more vividly than I can remember in a long time, and I would like to share it with you.



First and foremost, what happened, happened for a reason. We do not know how or why, and we may question God, but the fact is He is in control. The biggest thing is, it's in the past. We can't fix it. We can't change it. So why the hell would we dwell on it. It's time to suck it up and move on. I consider Gary a good friend, and hate how everything has gone down, but the fact remains that Revolution was started to create an environment to reach those far from God, and that has not changed! We need to move on from this, starting now. Everyday people are dying and going to hell, and we need to do all we can to prevent that from happening, and we can't do that sitting around moping about what was. We need to now focus on what is to come. This is how I suggest we do it.



Back when I was growing up I was heavily involved in the martial arts for about 7 years. During this time I progressed as most students would, and was taught a series of punches, strikes, and blocks. I want to focus on the blocks. You see for 5 of those 7 years I was told that blocks were for defense. During my 6th year, I was told that everything I knew about the martial arts was wrong. You see, the martial arts has no known defensive blocks. Everything is offensive. Everything. Why I started thinking about this I'll never know, but then I got to thinking about what happened, and wondering how defenses were lowered, then it hit me. God doesn't want us to be on the defensive. Nope, not at all. Then I got to thinking about Ephesians 6:10-18. The armor of God. Just listening to how it is laid down in these verses astounds me. I've always been told that it's these verses that tell us to keep our defenses up, but God showed me differently today. You see, these verses aren't about a person putting up their defenses. Far from it, these verses are about a man fixing to go and kick the devil, satan himself and all his demons square in the nuts. These verses are about a man that is preparing for a spiritual battle, and he is preparing himself to retaliate against all the attacks satan can throw at him. This is where we are Revolution, the enemy is in the camp, and my question is, are we gonna cower in the corner with our "defenses" up, our are we gonna arm ourselves, and kick satan's ASS???? I'm all for option 2!