We Didn’t Lose The Battle, We Let It In
Why spiritual warfare today looks like exhaustion, distraction, and the loss of discernment
An entire city fell because of the love, and obsession; of one man for one woman.
In Homer’s telling of the fall of Troy, the war is fought over Helen. Every battle is always fought over something. In Troy’s case, it wasn’t ultimately brute strength that brought the city down, but deception that was made possible because obsession.
The Trojan Horse wasn’t a military failure.
It was a failure of discernment.
The Trojans, and King Priam interpreted the horse as a sign of divine favor.
In reality, it was a beautifully packaged act of vanity, designed to deceive from the inside out.
Troy didn’t fall because of what attacked it from the outside, but because of what it willingly welcomed in.
Troy fell because of what it let inside.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Today, spiritual warfare rarely looks like open confrontation. It looks like deception. It looks like the slow sleight of hand that convinces us we’re experiencing “divine favor,” while quietly forming habits, loves, and allegiances t…
