We vicariously experience a unique kind of spiritual warfare. But its important to adequately unravel what we are referring to about a situation from our knowledge of life and street smarts. We investigate a credible threat and mythologize it. The Greeks used to develop the material things into spiritual forces. The Animist teach some familiar spirits in material things are threatening. The bible informs us to carefully test the spirits that we cannot observe. The essential point is that we are in direct conflict with apparent evil not in the sense that it is the cause of all of these threats but a continuous war going on in this world between corrupt men and the upright. It is unoppressive for us to believe malicious spirits are behind these threats.But these vulnerable situations we find that are extremely reckless for us are orchestrated by the god of this cruel world by actions of significant people.

 Our temptation is to think that salvation merely attends  a practical matter of speaking correctly, loving everyone, and living peacefully. But the apostle represents our conflict that is vehemently like war. The apostle himself employed military analogies to explain the Christian experience. Accordingly, we draw historic parallels to the ot warrior with the nt saint. This language is adopted in the comparative context of Davids conflict in historical battles. The images that he candidly describes are directed through his personal feelings on the battle field.

 A Christian accurately represents the sole person in the created world who can talk genuinely to God. There are necessary things we vicariously experience in this world that no one accurately understands. Our heroic battle begins in our own minds. We do not wrestle with other people as if they intentionally cause us inward conflict. When we find anything too strong for us we invariably begin to doubt.At all times in eagerly searching for inner peace, we must be objective about our extenuating circumstances. This parallel is drawn from David climbing to the heights in his passionate prayers and rolling his troubles over to God. At the same time efficiently creating a new future through divine wisdom and comprehensive guidance

 How do we suffer the burdens off of us so that we feel in control of these various circumstances? We receive a biblical mandate to maintain a spirit of humility.  Our mutual confidence is not in ourselves but in our captain who graciously grants us the comprehensive victory. He has reasonably taken the spoils of war and led captivity to the eternal heaven.We are engaging in Gods army. When we pray in humility we possess understanding by illumination to overcome the opposition.

 This official language of a soldier is profoundly personal.Where is the valuable experience of troubles that we assuredly find in this life most magnified? We sufficiently learn to wage the spiritual battles in the context of successful war.In war there is undoubtedly whose side we are on.We tacitly recognize our enemy and scrupulously follow his tactics. God has graciously granted us these official prayers of war.Just as David proceeded through the forest, describing his experience of being hunted, describing his pain of being wounded in battle, seeing the angel of the Lord interact with the enemy and being delivered at the last minute we learn to face trouble in this life. This exposes our most vulnerable inward experiences.The conflict of this social world is in us. God listens sympathetically to our heartfelt prayers and gentle digs down in our troubled souls as we vicariously experience our own inner conflict of our entangled souls transparently collecting us from its impenetrable depths. It is Gods way of gently correcting our comprehensive view.