Be Like A Salmon Today

Yesterday's post was silly, but today's is more serious. I keep thinking about how as Christians we are to be in the world but not of it. I've heard people say it's impossible to do and I don't agree with them. Most of the time, when I ask these same people if they believe there is spiritual warfare going on around us, they normally say that sort of thing only happens in third world countries.

Every evening I watch the nightly news and it becomes more and more obvious that this world is controlled by the enemy and is in a constant state of warfare. The battle that rages around us in the unseen spiritual realm, spills over into our domain (the visible, physical realm) and is affirmed during the nightly news broadcast. But it's not just the news, look at all of the filth on the internet, on TV, in the mall, at the bookstores, etc that we are bombarded with daily and many have accepted as "just the way it is". But, what can we do to separate ourselves from this unhealthy environment? The answer is, be like a salmon! Yes, you heard me correctly, be like a fish. (Some of you are saying What???, just stay with me). I love to eat salmon but the only complaint I have with it is it needs salt, and lots of it. In fact, when I sat down to eat salmon a while back at the local Japanese Steak House, the first thing I reached for was the salt shaker. Now when you think about it, the salmon spends it's life swimming through a harsh, cold environment and is always surrounded by salt water on the outside, but it's inside remains salt-less. Even though it lives in salt, none of that saltiness permeates through the salmon's skin to it's inner flesh. As Christians, we are alot like the salmon swimming through a world surrounded by evil on all sides. We need to learn a lesson from the salmon and not let the evil of this world permeate through our spiritual skins. So, as you swim through this salty sea of the world today, be aware, be prayed up, and above all else guard your heart!