Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual warfare has never been on my radar. It's never seemed real to me. I really didn't give it much thought until I did work crew at a Young Life camp about 4 summers ago. We were preparing for kids from all over to come to camp and learn about Jesus and an older girl started to talk to me about how much we truly needed to pray for these kids. Such an easy thing to say... "i'm praying for you". But what she said next put an urgency in my heart. She told me to imagine angels and demons fighting in the sky over us. She painted a picture of our God's warriors fighting for us. Loyally. Fighting.
Moving into a house with 50 girls was not something I was looking forward to. In fact i'm still not used to it. I've been dragging my feet and kind of staying out of the fray. But then at church on Sunday the sermon was ended with "Join the fight". Immediately images of Angels and demons popped into my head, I imagined the girls in the sorority house. The girls whose hearts are being fought for. Will I fight for them too? Will I love them enough to put up a fight for them? God has been cultivating my heart to understand love. Love should be unconditional. Love should be brave. Brave enough to put up a fight with the Lord beside me.