A New Year's Strategy of Resistance

Any effective resistance requires focus, strategy, and the ability to prioritize. If we attempt to fight on every front, we will spread ourselves too thin to be effective.

We can’t let every need or conflict pull us into a fight.

This being the case, the natural question is, ‘How do we determine when and where to fight?’

I’ll begin by saying where we shouldn’t look in determining our strategy: social media.

We all know by now that there are many dangers to social media, but one of its most basic and insidious threats is the way it shapes our priorities.

It does this by offering an alternate reality that is either exclusively filled with conflict, or void of it entirely. A battle on every street corner, or a picture-perfect body, house, and life.

The temptation we face when confronted with such false realities is to feel responsible to engage in every conflict (many of which may not even be on our front doorstep) …or to attempt to avoid conflict completely in a quest for an idealized vision of comfort and ease.

Before engaging in either of these extremes, we should ask ourselves: Would I even know about this ‘threat’ if I wasn’t on X? Would certain expectations and concerns be weighing on my conscience if I was focused on the people in front of me?

And here is the saddest part of having our priorities shaped by a fake world: we end up missing the fight in front of us.

Our thoughts and energy are given to conflicts and ambitions outside the home at the expense of the people within it.

Don’t misunderstand me; there is a time to go to battle outside the home, for the sake of the home.

But the greatest battle, and the front we must fight on daily, is the battle to love and serve our spouses and our children. To build a shelter, however modest, from the evils of the world, and equip them to stand faithfully in their day.

If we lose the home, we lose the reason we fight.

This New Year, my prayer for myself, and for you all, is that you would be faithful at your post.

This is where our resistance to evil must always begin.

With you all,

Alex Kloosterman

Resistance Coffee Company