2 Timothy 2:4
“No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”
As we’ve talked about previously, the devil is after our faith. He knows that if he can get us to step away from our faith in the promises of God, we won’t see them manifest in our lives. He therefore uses the affairs of this life to entangle us and hinder us. But thank God Jesus came to set us free from the devil and everything that he uses to entangled us.
When you are entangled, you are caught up in something that has you bound. While some parts of you may be free, you’re unable to free yourself from the trap. The place of entanglement is the mind. We can become so preoccupied mentally with the things of this life that we’re not focused on the things of God. It’s impossible for us to do what we’re commissioned to do when our minds are entangled. As believers our one focus should be going into all the world with the gospel of Christ and the love of God. Because the only way to change the hearts of men is through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Politics, rules, and laws won’t change men’s hearts only Jesus Christ the Son of the living God can give men a new heart. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” When a man’s heart is new, he has the ability to live a new life. His old way of living is passed away and all things have become new.
Paul admonished the believers in Galatians 5:1 to “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” The reason being is that God doesn’t want His people to go back and be entangled in anything He has brought them out of. God wants us free. The Galatians had become entangled in the law even though they were now under the new covenant of grace. And because of that they lost the sweetness and blessedness of grace. As believers when we become entangled in the affairs of this life, we too can lose the sweetness of grace and our effectiveness as salt and light in the world. While this doesn’t mean that we’re not involved in the world, it simply means that even in our involvement our focus should be to bring souls to the loving arms of our Father God through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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