The War Is Over #RTTBROS #Nightlight #spiritualwarfare #spiritualwar

The War Is Over #RTTBROS #Nightlight #spiritualwarfare #spiritualwar

Stop Fighting a War That's Already Over #RTTBROS #Nightlight

"Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before." — Philippians 3:13

One of the strangest stories to come out of World War II involves a Japanese soldier named Hiroo Onoda, stationed in the Philippines. When Japan surrendered in 1945, Onoda refused to believe it. He stayed in the jungle and kept fighting. They dropped leaflets in Japanese trying to reach him. They couldn't track him down. He was simply too good at what he did. The only way they finally got him to come in was to find an officer he personally knew and send that man into the jungle to bring him out.

Hiroo Onoda fought World War II until 1974. Nearly thirty years after it was over.

Now here's the part that ought to stop us cold. The preacher in this sermon said it as plainly as it can be said: there are a lot of us still fighting battles that Jesus already won on the cross.

Paul said the one thing he did, the one discipline above everything else, was forgetting what was behind and pressing toward what was ahead. Not because the past didn't matter, but because staying stuck in it was keeping him from the prize in front of him. Past failures you've already repented of, let them go. Past successes you're still resting on, let them go too. God has something more for you.

There's a reason, somebody once said, that your rearview mirror is so much smaller than your windshield. God wants you looking ahead, not behind.

The war is won. You can come out of the jungle now.

Let's pray: Father, help us release what's behind us and press with everything we have toward what You have ahead. In Jesus' name, Amen.

#Faith #Forgiveness #ChristianLiving #DailyDevotion #LetItGo #PressOn #RTTBROS #Nightlight

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