And in Ephesians, one of my favorite books in the Bible,
that’s exactly what the apostle Paul tries to tell us:
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [what you
can see], but against the rulers, against the powers,
against the world forces of this darkness, against the
spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places
[what you can’t see]. (Eph. 6:12, with my additional
comments)Hear that again: Flesh and blood, skin and bones—those
aren’t the places where your real struggles lie. The identity of
your real enemy, once the Bible has weighed in, is clear as day.
It’s him. It’s all him. It’s always been him.
But in the rough-and-tumble of life’s exhausting pace, we
can quickly lose touch with a passage like Ephesians 6. Even in
knowing the truth, we can lose sight of where these attacks are
originating from... from back there, behind the curtain. And
by failing to take notice and remember, it’s not hard then to lose
our cool, our temper, and most of our self-control before we
ever find our way back to ultimate reality.