What is spiritual warfare? Is it when you have a bunch of important deadlines and your Internet suddenly stops despite the fact you pay your bills? Is it when you set an appointment to have the service man come to your home in the morning of a particular day and you change your plans to be home but no one comes? Later you find out the service man came and only checked the outside but left because he thought there was no problem but did not tell you? Which means you did not have to cancel or reschedule your previous activities. Or maybe you call the service center back and say they only checked the outside, but it will cost you 20 grieven and a 24 hour wait before they return. Or while you are celebrating your wife’s birthday in a restaurant you receive a call that the cable guy wants to come now instead of the time they arranged. Or when they arrive for the second time they say the problem is not in your flat but outside and by the way your neighbors are also having a problem. They say they will be back tomorrow but they never show up. Is this spiritual warfare?
We can’t control the circumstances but we can control how we respond to them. And now the rest of the story. Our Internet is back. Oorah! Turns out our neighbors tapped into our Internet cable. For the past year I have wondered why our Internet traffic was so high. Our son kept saying his usage was very little compared to ours downloading TV shows from the states even.
Now I understand. I kept accusing my family and complaining about guests using the Internet without paying. The accuser made me think it was my own family that was out to get me so to speak instead of placing the blame correctly and dealing with it. That guy with the pitch fork is sly!
