“Life’s a War. Seek and Save” – Joel Christian Yeary

As many times as I have seen this quote on Joel’s myspace, yesterday was the first day that I fully began to understand the deeper meaning behind it. Joel is one of the worship leaders at my church, and his dad is our senior pastor. He is one of the coolest people to talk to about faith, life, and other random things. When I took all of this into my thinking process, and read the quote again, I finally got it. In this life, we are faced with challenges. Some are big and can get us killed, others leave us wounded unable to carry on. As Christian’s, we need to help the injured. We need to seek them out and save them from their abrasions and brokenness. More often then not, seeking out the wounded means leaving our comfort zone and going to the trenches where they lay. I know that it is hard for people to leave their comfort zone because when you get out in the world, you become vulnerable to attacks from the enemy. But, we must remember, that we are under the protection of the greatest armor ever created, the armor of God. It is our spiritual beings that need to be taken care of, and God has that under control. We just need to lay the pride and selfishness (what all sins and falls ultimately boil down to) aside and “Seek and Save” in the battlefield of life…