Episode 26 -- Spiritual Combat c16 -- Early Morning Soldier

What should I do when I first wake up in the morning?

In our last episode, we read about various objections that are raised to the spiritual combat by our misguided self-love. We tell ourselves that we are too weak to struggle against sin? We forget that God is all-powerful. We tell ourselves that our spiritual enemies are too many. We forget that the saints and angels outnumber the demons. We tell ourselves that we are not able to follow the Lord so faithfully. We forget that many others, weaker than ourselves, have done so! We tell ourselves that this fight is too long and will last one’s whole life. We forget that we have no other choice. What else is there to do but fight? If we do not fight against ourselves, we will spiritually die.

Let us not forget that the Lord is the one who fights for us! He is at our side. He will conquer our spiritual enemies as long as we do not quit the field of battle!

In this episode, we will be reading about a wonderful spiritual practice for the first moments of our day.