Timothy, my child, I’m giving you these instructions based on the prophecies that were once made about you. So if you follow them, you can wage a good war because you have faith and a good conscience. Some people have ruined their faith because they refused to listen to their conscience, such as Hymenaeus and Alexander. I’ve handed them over to Satan so that they can be taught not to speak against God. (1 Timothy 1:18-20, CEB)
I honestly sometimes have issues with the things we have in scripture.
If you follow the instructions you were given, you can wage a good war because of faith and a good conscience. What is a good war? How is war ever good? Maybe if you win, but does anyone really win a war? I mean, someone gets a victory, but lives are lost, resources are lost. No one really completely wins. And what is good war?
I would conjecture the only good war is the one we wage against ourselves to follow Christ or our own desires.
This reminds me of the song by Todd Agnew War Inside
Do you feel the tension, do you?
Do you feel the grind?
Do you see the battle ‘tween this
Flesh and soul of mine?
‘Cause there’s a war inside of me
Between who I want to be
And who I am
I do what I don’t want to do
And don’t do what I mean
I end up chasing all my nightmares
And abandoning my dreams
‘Cause there’s a war inside of me
Between who I want to be
And who I am
Is not who I want to be
Shackled like a slave when I know that I’m free
Wrong and right, truth and lie, death versus life
Everything in me is choosing sides
And the showdown begins
Do you feel the tension?
There’s a war inside of me
Between who I want to be
There’s a war inside of me
Between who I want to be
And who I am, who I am
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