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 effectively and remain behind cover under normal circumstances, if you can pop their helmet off they will abandon sound reasoning and enter “berserker” mode. Once they are “enraged” in this manner, they lose all sense of perspective and begin a single-minded pursuit of 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 get us acting from a place of rage and frustration than with the mind of Christ… and if we aren’t careful, we can even 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 and allow His wisdom to prevail in our minds today.

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

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2

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