Why fight when he is defeated?

Well yes,  the devil is defeated but in a very interesting way which God has ordained, the proof that he is defeated can be seen only when we, the church take our stand and fight against his lies. Isn't that exciting and challenging at the same time? It is his lies that we have to expose because he still claims that he is in charge and we have to enforce the truth which is why we still say we are in a fight. Many of us are still confused as to why we still have to fight. It is called a fight of faith. We are not attacking him directly because he is already defeated.  We are attacking his lies and most of us are very poor at it because we are not convinced of the truth!
It is a great consolation for us to know that he cannot do anything against us physically even if he wants to. God has to allow it just like He allowed in the case of Job. The only way the devil can defeat us is by making us trip over ourselves. That is why Paul takes pains to exhort us to stand in Ephesians 6. Our stand is our victory. 

The humility of Jesus!

Many of us harbor secret suspicions in our mind regarding the humility of Jesus. When we think of Him with His disciples, we find it a bit difficult to picture a humble Jesus because we think of Him as rebuking His disciples quite often. We usually think of the disciples as a miserable lot who rode into one mishap after another. The picture of Jesus washing the disciples feet seem strangely unreal and artificial to us. It is very difficult to think of a leader and a servant at the same time. What we fail to realise is that Jesus was Son of God in human form. Every time He related to them, it was actually humility because He had to bring Himself down to their level every time. And what is even more amazing is that He went below their level and His thoughts were on serving rather than ruling. There was no spirit of condescension or disdain in His dealings with them at any time. Washing the disciples feet was a natural outcome of His attitude inside. A striking verse is found in Mathew 11:29 where He addresses Himself as gentle and humble of heart. He will not push it down on us. There is no spirit of subjugation here. He promises rest for our souls.