Weakness as Warfare Strategy
CHRISTINE GORDON | CONTRIBUTOR Unless you or someone close to you has a military background, warfare strategy isn’t something you probably think about much. But as believers, we are in a thousands-year-long conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil. In 2 Corinthians 10, we read a snippet about that war. A Plan for Battle Some of Paul’s friends had been taken captive in the city of Corinth, and his strategy for freeing them included the ancient practice of siege warfare. His battle plan included three distinct steps: First, demolish the fortified military stronghold. Second, take all enemies captive. Finally, punish any remaining resistance. Any citizen in first century Corinth would have been aware of such battle tactics, and all would have understood that the resisters in the city would eventually lose against the invading commander. Don’t remember this part of 2 Corinthians? Perhaps a clue will help: Paul’s battle was not conducted with maps and guns but with the power of God. He and his fellow soldiers were waging war in the spiritual world with a different kind of munition...
