Life is Spiritual Warfare | St Kosmas of Aetolia | Gustave Dore | David & Goliath | Unseen Warfare | Orthodox Christian Black MugLife is spiritual warfare. If youre not fighting, youre losing. + St Kosmas of Aetolia +++ Psalm 151 I was the smallest among my brethren, and the youngest in the house of my father. My hands made an instrument, and my fingers fashioned a psaltery. And who shall tell my Lord? The Lord Himself, He Himself shall hearken. He sent forth His angel and took me from the flocks of my father, and anointed me with the oil of His anointing. My brethren were

soften the hardness of my soul

and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley

For many dogs have encircled me

a change took place throughout the world

From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them

of what sort it is

- St Romanos the Melodist

and I find myself free… For the faithful the Cross is a mighty power which delivers from all evils

" Having said that he did say a prayer for them and let them go

But when the sinful world considered Him to be completely destroyed

from the demon of the noonday

weep between the porch and the altar