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| BTD4 Anthill Track round 91 |
As a Christian, I also saw some parellels between this interactive game, and the life I'm living, and warfare I'm waging, in my Christian walk. Here's the metaphor, or analogy. Hope you like it. Greg Purnell
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The Sun Gods represent prayer. We need a lot of them, and we can place them wherever and whenever we want. And they kill a lot of the enemies' darts.
The Wizards are our Bible reading. It fills us with the knowledge of the mysteries of God.
The Cannons are our quoting scripture to the devil and the enemies of our soul. Our verbal declarations are like the yellow fish diving out of our mouth and into the midst of the situation and clearing away the lies of the enemy.
The ships are our Christian friends. They stand beside us and help us defeat our enemies.
The bloons are the daily battles we face in life. At first, there are just a few, and we knock them out with one little dart. But the troubles, and temptations in a Christian's life, keep coming, and keep getting bigger. Still the bloons flow over us like the river of every day life, trying to defeat us, but we stay on top of them.
Then the MOABs come out. These are huge and difficult circumstances that seek to utterly sweep us out to sea. We battle them with our words and scriptural declarations, till they crumble and we take them out with prayer and our daily walk with God, which are the Fire Rings.
We set those up in calm times, so that in trying times, like good habits, they are in place and automatically kick into rescue us.
Then, at times in life, the BFBs come rolling in. They are the death of a loved one, the falling of a famous pastor, the divorce of a marriage you thought would last, or the temptation of your lifelong besetting sin, when the trap has been set and the enemies' work of a lifetime is unleashed on you all at once.
In those moments--those tests that will come--we find out if we have built our lives on sand or on the solid rock of God's Word and the spiritual disciplines that will carry us through. If we have prepared, and 'purchased' the defenses we need beforehand, we will make it through these difficult tests.
May God give us the strength, and wisdom and patience, to lay our defences down in times of ease, so that when the daily struggles, added to the MOABs of conflict and doubt, and then the BFBs of life assault us, we will stand firm, and having done everything to stand, we will stand and defeat the enemy.
Then the round is over, bloons finally stop coming, and the little numbers, our scores, will come rising up out of our farms, and Jesus, our shepherd and coach, will say to us, "Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over small things, now I will make you a ruler over kingdoms, for my name and my glory's sake!" May we live and strive for His glory, and to hear that "Well done" at the end of our game.
Rejoice...
Greg Purnell
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I hope you found this an interesting take on BTD4 as a metaphor.
Add to it, if you think of other, different or better comparisons to the christian life, or our journey through life in general.
