The Unseen War: When Obedience Becomes the Only Strategy.

Reconciling Faith, Logic, and the Cost of Following God into the Battle.

This reflection began with a question posed by Pastor Paul Christopher in one of his thought-provoking articles: "What does your spiritual battlefield look like?"

What Does Your Spiritual Battlefield Look Like?

My initial response came quickly:

1. Witchcraft attacks, even in my own home—manifesting through what I perceive as astral projections.

2. Dream invasions that carry an unmistakable spiritual weight.

3. Perhaps most difficult of all, the divine call to love the very people I feel are being used in these spiritual battles.

This question opened up something deeper in me- not just about the nature of my own warfare, but about the uncomfortable terrain where faith and logic collide. It's one thing to acknowledge the battle. It's another to walk into it with no blueprint but obedience. In a world that constantly demands reason, strategy, and certainty, spiritual obedience often feels countercultural, even irrational. Yet that is exactly what the journey requires.

One of the most difficult tensions I’ve experienced in this spiritual landscape is the pull between logic and what many would call “blind faith.” But I’ve come to understand that what looks like blindness to the world is often pure clarity in the spirit. It is not about abandoning thought or reason. It’s about surrendering them to the One whose ways are higher.

Obedience Over Understanding.

Abraham embodies this tension in Hebrews 11:8:

“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, (even though he did not know where he was going.)”

This is the kind of faith that isn’t theorized, it’s lived. It doesn’t seek to resolve every question before taking a step. It moves because God said move. That kind of obedience is costly. It’s the kind that doesn’t always feel safe. It won’t always make sense to those around you. And sometimes, it doesn’t even make sense to you.

But the spiritual battlefield doesn’t ask us to feel certain. It asks us to be surrendered.

Logic as a Liability?

There are moments where logic becomes a hindrance rather than a help. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5:

“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world… we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

There’s a kind of spiritual warfare that requires us to unlearn human strategies. We don’t debate demons. We don’t logic our way through witchcraft. We don't argue with dreams. We pray. We fast. We obey. Sometimes, we just stand because standing itself is a form of warfare when everything tells you to run.

Called to Love the Ones Who Hurt.

The real test, though, often comes in the form of love. How do you love people who seem to be a source of your spiritual conflict? How do you intercede for those you suspect are spiritually opposing you?

This is where the battlefield becomes holy ground. Because God doesn’t just call us to win. He calls us to be transformed. To obey when it hurts. To bless those who curse us. To love without explanation. That is a higher obedience, and perhaps the fiercest battle of all.

Final Thought.

Proverbs 3:5-6 urges:

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”

The spiritual life will always ask more of us than we’re comfortable giving. It will ask us to act when there’s no clarity, to trust when there's no proof, and to love when there's no guarantee of return.

This is the battlefield. And obedience is our greatest weapon.

This song is especially comforting to me in this season and might bless you too:

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