Psalm 37: 14-15 Draw your Sword for the Lord

The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright. 

But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

Psalm 37:14-15

As someone who hungers and thirsts for righteousness, what makes you angry enough to want to draw your sword and bend your bow? 

• Millions of unborn children whose lives are ended through abortion? Millions of children whose lives are oppressed by generational poverty and government programs that keep them there?
  
  
• The misuse of God's name through curse words? The misuse of God's name by people who claim to speak for God but don't pursue God's purposes?
  
  
• Discords, factions, and truth-bending? Even more so when it's Christians who are arguing among themselves and bending the truth to suit themselves?
  
  
• Selective indignation at certain sins, and passive acceptance of other sins?

It's important to remember we're fighting God's battle, not our own, and we're fighting with God's weapons, not the weapons of the world.

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

As a soldier for the Lord, what are the weapons you're tempted to rely on instead of the Sword of the Lord, the Word of God?

• Legalistic emphasis on the laws of the Bible, unbalanced by love and grace?
  
  
• Pursuit of power through politics, privilege, or the purse-string?
  
  
• Leading with anger and condemnation instead of love? Confrontation instead of Care-frontation?

It's so easy to allow our anger be sparked by our personal obsessions, to let our zeal be directed by the ways of the world.

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. II Corinthians 10:3-4

...in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left... II Corinthians 5:6-7