[Salvation]

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[Salvation]

Well, I am back after moving. Still a lot of things to put away — as I type with the keyboard on my lap since my new desk doesn’t arrive until the 10th.

[HarleyLady27]

Every year after Thanksgiving, I make a wreath (bought from the store) and place candles and holders in and around the wreath, each night after dinner, we light a candle to thank Our Lord for us being able to see the light...

[chajin]

And thus the Lord defeats Satan; not by the becoming a bigger, fiercer, more vengeful version of Satan, but by canceling Satan’s grievous stance with its opposite. It is the Lord’s refusal to meet Satan’s terms, to become anything like him or in any way enter his world.

I have been thinking about this idea lately, in terms of Caesar's realm as well as God's (Matt. 22:21).

Scripture teaches us that God is infinitely more everything good compared to Satan, and so can't possibly lose to Satan, even if it seems that God is "losing" at a given point in history. God, therefore, doesn't have to lower Himself to Satan's level in order to defeat Satan. So when we ask God to come and save us, we have to be willing to accept God's will being done on earth as in heaven, as we pray in the Lord's Prayer.

But this doesn't work in Caesar's realm, the realm of politics and secular power. In Caesar's realm, the enemy sets the rules of engagement, and if we act otherwise, we are only fooling ourselves and setting ourselves up for defeat.

In God's realm we need holy saints, but in Caesar's we need God-fearing warriors. In God's realm we need Francis Assisis and Francis Xaviers, Thomas a Kempi and Thomas Aquini, but in Caesar's realm we need Davids, Jehus, Charles Martels, George Pattons--and Donald Trumps.

[annalex]

Good to see you back.

Feel free to take tomorrow off this if you feel like using a actual desk.