The Study of the Word of God Is Spiritual Warfare

There is a great spiritual war fought on the turf of your heart, fought for control of your soul in every stuation. The study of the word of god is spiritual warfare. We live in a dramatically broken world that doesn't operate the way god intended. And so marriage is spiritual war. Parenting isspiritual war. You have to know that you bring some kind of position, some kind of condition of your heart to your study of of the bible. I love this parable that jesus told in luke 18, of the pharisee and the tax collector. For avyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but one who humbles himself