Talking Heads: "Life During Wartime"

What an interesting song about war this is. Instead of decrying the carnage and brutality, David Byrne imagined what daily life would be like in a failed state. Survivors would be concerned with finding food and keeping safe. Things like records and speakers would be very low on the priority list of people in such a situation.

Listen to this song here:

We Christians are living in wartime but it's a spiritual conflict. After Paul listed the weapons we must put on, he gave the reason we fight in Ephesians 6:13 (Bible in Basic English). "For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place."

Armies are often commanded to hold their position or to advance. Paul urged his prodigy to keep moving forward in 1 Timothy 6:12 (BBE) when he said, "Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all."

Fighting a war, like competitive sports, takes great effort. As Paul likened both in 1 Corinthians 9:24-26 (BBE), "Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward. And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown. So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:"

Neither must we forget the afflictions we suffered before, as Hebrews 10:32 (BBE) admonishes, "But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;

The finish line of faith is also what we must keep in mind. Philippians 3:14 (BBE) is Paul's end goal. "I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus."

If we don't reach that finish line by Thursday, I'll point out the stupidity of racism.