One of the most surprising moments in the entire Halo series was when both the Master Chief and the Arbiter found themselves captured by the hive mind behind the flood, the “Gravemind”. In that moment, these hostile adversaries came to the realization that there was a much greater threat to their existence than the disagreements that brought them to this moment of clarity… the activation of the Halo rings that would result in the destruction of every life form in the universe. The bitter war they had waged against each other had to be put behind them so they could work together and battle the true enemy that had manipulated both of them into this position of division, and by choosing to move forward in unity, they accomplished the mission that neither of them could have achieved without the other.

As long as humans walk this earth we will find areas of disagreement to divide us, but our battles are NOT with flesh and blood… they’re with demonic principalities that set us against each other with a mission of destroying us all. With our TRUE spiritual enemy in mind, let’s align our hearts with the true mission of Christ, not the petty conflicts that are designed to distract us with smaller battles while we lose the war for souls. He came to seek and save, and if we are truly following Him, that’s our priority today, too.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:31-32

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12

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The “Brutes” that were introduced in Halo 2 are an interesting character study, demonstrating a fairly nuanced battle strategy that can make them quite difficult to take down… until you learn the secret of disrupting their tactics. While they utilize ranged weapons incredibly effectively and take cover like a disciplined soldier under normal circumstances, if you can pop their helmet off with a well-placed shot they will abandon sound reasoning and enter “berserker” mode. Once they are “enraged” in this manner, they lose all sense of battlefield perspective and begin recklessly pursuing the individual that caused it, making them much easier to outsmart and defeat. 

In the battleground of our minds, the enemy of our souls would like nothing more than to push us into acting from a place of rage and frustration than with the mind of Christ… and if we aren’t careful, we can easily mistake our anger and passion as a form of “holy zeal”. The battles we are called to fight on the behalf of the Lord will never require us to operate outside of His principles of peace, gentleness, and mercy, and the temptation to engage in these conflicts while “enraged” will never generate the righteousness of Christ. Fighting fire with fire is a fool’s errand… let’s keep our helmet of salvation fully secured today so His wisdom can prevail in our minds.

So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. James 1:19-20

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:17-18

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