For millions of years, fathers trained their sons in the art of war and combat. It was a question of survival. A man had to know how to fight, defend himself and his family. From the time that the boy took his first steps, his father would already get him used to the idea of being strong, handling weapons, the importance of knowing his strengths and weaknesses, as well as his enemies.

Today, this scene is limited to war movies on a theater or television screen. We don’t even want our boys to cry! Poor baby, give him a pacifier!

Yes, thankfully we don’t have to train our sons to handle a sword and cut someone’s head off, at least in our part of the world. But this doesn’t mean the wars have ended and that the enemies no longer exist. On the contrary, our enemies have grown in numbers; they’ve become stronger and are now everywhere. The wars are greater and more lethal. Curiously enough, the appearance of peace has become our greatest problem.

If in the past, our enemies were visible and simple to detect, today evil is camouflaged among us. We don’t notice it anymore. It enters our house through the TV screen every day; it’s simply one click away on the computer, and a touch away on our smartphone; it’s in the music we innocently sing while sitting in traffic; in the destructive ideas appealed to our most basic instincts, such as: greed, selfishness, envy, anger; It’s in the laws, in the system, in religion… Everything comes dressed in the clothes of peace, joy and pleasure. Open a Coca-Cola; turn on the TV and everything’s alright.

Nobody is training for war anymore. War? That only happens in Afghanistan. All the while, in the battlefields of life there are fallen bodies of those defeated by addictions, divorce, greed, pornography, depression, emptiness, and the entire army of evil. Their victims didn’t even know they were in a war. They perished just the same.

King David, who before the age of 18, had already faced and beaten bears, lions and giants, said:

It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places. He teaches my hands to make war, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. — Psalms 18:32-34

Blessed be the Lord my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle. — Psalms 144:1

The one who was discarded by his own father in favor of his brothers, saw in God, his trainer. And what a good trainer God was to David.

I’m traveling in time with you here, speaking of things that few understand, basically so I can give you this message:

1. Enemies have changed faces, evolved, multiplied and are more dangerous than ever
2. People are suffering and perishing because they aren’t prepared for the wars they face
3. God, as Father, still trains His children, those who are willing to learn, for battle

Whether you like it or not, you are in the middle of this war. If you don’t fight, you will be defeated. If you don’t train, you won’t win even if you fight.

Human education = Capacity
Human Education + God’s training = Capacity³

Are you using all the weapons at your disposal?

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