…for no one loses in this battle but he who ceases to fight and to trust in God. He never ceases to help His soldiers, although He sometimes suffers them to be wounded . Only fight, for all depends on this. There are remedies at hand for healing the wounds of those warriors who look to God and to His help with confidence ; and, when they least expect it, they shall find their enemies dead. – The Spiritual Combat
There are times when you don’t know how to carry on as you see the number of odds against you. As the enemy advances from every side, you are tempted to give in to fear. You see their stature and their great number and you are tempted to despair. Everything seems to point out to a losing battle and your hopelessness seems to sap your strength away.
Deep within you however, you know you can’t just give up. To retreat would be to accept immediate defeat. To surrender is to give up fighting for a cause that is higher than even your own life.
So you go on, and you fight. And you entrust everything to Him who alone can determine the true victors of the battle. You look up to Him and you give everything that you have. It doesn’t matter anymore no matter how small or weak you think you are. The battle belongs to God and it is His unfailing strength that will carry you through.
See now that I, I alone, am he, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them, and from my hand no one can deliver. For I raise my hand to the heavens and will say: As surely as I live forever, When I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand lays hold of judgment, With vengeance I will repay my foes and requite those who hate me. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh… Exult with him, you heavens, bow to him, all you divine beings! For he will avenge the blood of his servants, take vengeance on his foes; He will requite those who hate him, and purge his people’s land. – Deuteronomy 32, NABRE
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