WWII

Like Rob posted earlier, I was intrigued by Best's description of our current "worship war." He managed to accurately diagnose the issue while avoiding two extremes: he did not deny the tension that exists over worship, yet he did not blow the conflict out of proportion either. Instead, Best writes, "We are not in a worship war. Well, yes we are, but not the one some commentators like to refer to. There is only one worship war, and it is between God and Satan, each the supreme object of someone's worship, either redeemed or lost. We are self-absorbed when we use the 'war' word as a working term for the petty and overly self-indulgent skirmishes that we enter, almost always over transient, not eternal, things.(60)" By making such a statement, Best draws our attention away from what we can see to what is actually happening in the spiritual realm. He is not saying anything we have not heard before, he merely echoes Paul's words in Ephesians 6:12: "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Thank you, Harold Best, for taking the timeless truth of the Word and showing its tremendous effect on the way we live right now!