It is interesting that Christ Marvels over the magnitude of the Centurion's faith, in Luke. {A Leader of the Roman Armies best 100 warriors.} He understands the difficulty with which humans struggle with faith- that we are visually oriented, seeing the physical first and the spiritual second. Indeed, with most, the physical is more real than the spiritual. Yet, the reality is that true power, glory, protection, and love are spiritual. These spiritual things are more real than the physical world that we see and hear. The spiritual Kingdom of God will last forever. It is in this view of things that I lay my faith in Jesus even unto death, in my real-time protection. For there is something else besides my right to protect myself involved. His right to give any right.
When there is distrust in Gods protection over us our faith in Him suffers a crippling blow. Fear, anxiety, and depression escalate, and the motivation to be personally secure and free from the hassles of coping intensifies. The "Fight or flight" mechanism kicks in. And as we look ahead instead of above Satan, then, flies in to have us take pause with Gods overwhelming power of protecting His children, and we, like that of the story with Adam and Eve are distracted from submitting to the most wonderful, lovable, giving, concerned, sensitive, and helpful personality in all creation--GOD. Can you imagine that? The Devil convinced them that God could not be trusted.
We need to ask ourselves with God present:
* Is God Sovereign over His creation?
* Is Jesus Christ the payment for my sins? And if He is, does the Father , then, who owns me have every right to use me as He pleases- even unto death?
* If through Him calling me to Himself; predestined to Eternal life, will He not also demonstrate His personal concern over His investment of a beloved relationship to His children by protecting them more preciously than the birds of the air?
I believe God has my back, and supernaturally so. I believe that if I were to die because I could not kill my opposer at the time, over simply fleeing the threat by some open door God would avail, I would see God face to face. God has not given me a right to anything outside of Himself. I believe in His protection. And I believe anything outside of Faith in Him is a crippling blow to the higher value of life.