Be on my side, ok?

In Lincolns greatest speech, in my opinion, he said about war:

"both read the same bible and pray to the same God and each involkes his aid against the other"


In looking at my list of favorite books I find "War and Peace" on the list. Why is a good question. Maybe it was just good to see Napaloen get beat. Maybe it was good to read the story of the war so well wraped around a good love story. Young mans first love's heart is broken. He goes to war is wounded and comes back and dies in her arms. The French take Moscow but accomplish nothing. (there is a lesson by the way) They turn to return and as they go home and the weather beats them.

Not on either side

Lincoln seemed to catch part of the irony. Even so are lesson's from the wars and insights from famous men like Lincoln of value for fighting wars or is our life really a war that that we need to take those lesssons for?

We believe spirtually that there is a war going on between good and evil and that as we live out our daily lives we are engaged in it. From that knowledge we learn that we are not neutral. We are in a personal war.



So the question then really is which side is God on. In this book the French beat the Russian's but the weather beat the French. Then too what difference did it make. Whose side was good on.

The lesson of war can apply to making us better

In War and Peace and in most war stories you see people defeated by being distracted, decoyed, lured, flattered, enticed, and by being power hungry. All of these conditions happen to us in our daily lives.

We lose track of what good is and what evil is for all the same reasons.