Spiritual Warfare

W. Austin Gardner • April 18, 2022

It has well been said that there are people who make things happen, people who watch things happen and people who don’t know that anything is happening. David had insight into Israel’s plight and knew what was happening. He realized that it wasn’t a physical conflict between two armies, but a spiritual battle between truth and error, faith and superstition, the true and living God and dead idols. David’s faith lifted the war to a much higher plane, just as Paul did in Ephesians 6:10ff. Our battle is against the devil and his army, and human weapons are useless in that conflict.

Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Successful , “Be” Commentary Series (Colorado Springs, CO: Victor/Cook Communications, 2001), 97.

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