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on when to wage peace and when to wage war

"We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage." — J. E. B. Stuart

You must know your strengths and then you must choose your battlefield. Do your best to fight how you want, where you want, and when you want instead of how you don't where you don't when you don't.

Luke 14:31-32
What king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

In matters of conflict, it is always wise to do the math. Can you win with what you have? Can you defeat what your adversary has? It is wiser to wage peace when you're outmatched than it is to wage war.

Acts 5:39
But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

Men are beatable under the right circumstances, but God is not. You can never defeat God and you can never defeat a man who has God on his side as Goliath knows all too well. It is wiser to wage peace with the Lord than it is to rail against Him. You will never win. You are outmatched, outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and overpowered. Best to stand down and be invited to rise from the dead than to stand up to God and be forced to bend the knee.

You cannot defend yourself against God. It is indefensible. You can and must attack your sin. If you don't, God will attack you and you won't be able to hold your ground.