Daily Battles

For almost 10 years now, I have been living a life back and forth Cavite and Manila, and in all those years I have been blessed with the protection of God against the “evil elements” that lurk around us. However, with what happened to my loved ones this week, I paused for a while to reflect about God’s protection.

Was I really protected or was it just mere “luck”? Why did it happen to my family, aren’t they supposed to be protected too?

What battles do we encounter everyday? Does God really protect us from the enemies? If He does, then why do we still struggle to survive the daily battles that we face?

I cannot answer all these questions now, or I may not be able to answer them clearly, but let me try to share the reflections that God revealed to me through Bible studies and daily devotions.

First, there are different battles that we encounter everyday. Spiritual, emotional, and physical are probably the most general categories of battles that we face. I’ll start with the spiritual, since I think this is the main source of other battles. John Bevere, in his book “Under Cover” discusses that the root cause of all the curses and problems that we encounter is Sin. I won’t discuss them in detail here (1) because I can’t, (2) because it would be better if you will read it for yourself and allow the Holy Spirit to guide you through.

“So are you telling me that the reason for my problems is Sin?”

“Yes.”

“And why are you telling this? Aren’t you a sinner yourself?”

“I am. And that’s one of the biggest daily battle that I face: the battle against SIN. (And that’s why I’m sharing this to you, because most likely, you are in a battle yourself.)”

From spiritual comes emotional. Later, we would worry too much, we would get in love and would be hurt too much; we would get mad and would hate too much; we would lose and would curse, and so on and so forth.

From emotional comes physical. Because our emotions are affected, we tend to express it too much through words and actions. We curse the people we hate at times even hurting them (and ourselves) physically.

Second, God protects us. That’s for sure. But the problem is, we don’t allow Him to protect us. In Matthew 7:7-8, we learn that if we ask it will be given to us, if we seek we will find, and if we knock, the door will be opened for us. God offers an indestructible bunk that would protect us from the enemies, but the problem is we just don’t knock! How will we get in if we prefer to stay outside? How are we going to be protected if we prefer to be in danger?

Third (which is probably the most difficult question to answer), we continue to have struggles because God wants us to learn to depend on Him. The problem with human pride is our claim that we can do things on our own, that we are independent from God. This is exactly what the Devil told Eve when the snake persuaded her to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

“Ok Wait, I never boastfully told God that I can live my own life without him!”

“Yeah, you might have not said it, but in some little ways, we may not be aware that we’ve been doing it.”

Most would argue that since God gave us the intelligence, the ability to rationalize compared to other creatures that He made, we should use it to decide for our own lives. What we miss is the fact that in everything that we do, we should always ASK for God’s plan, SEEK for his answers, and KNOCK for our minds to be opened.


The incidents made me worry about the safety of my family. It made me ask the questions above. But God gave me the peace that I am looking for. Truly, “He makes me lie down in green pastures and leads me beside quiet waters”. (Psalms 23:2)

Most people see these daily battles as curses, but Jesus’s disciples should see them as opportunities to depend to God. We should see these battles as blessings, after all “all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28)