From my very first experience playing Legend of Zelda on the original NES through the Zelda games of the modern era, I’ve found a very important fact to be proven true over and over again… no matter how diligently I work to clear a specific area of enemies, if I leave that screen and return to the same location later on I will find that they’ve all respawned. Frustrated, I would apply myself once again to eliminating these low-level adversaries… but I soon learned it was just a waste of my time. These battles had no connection to my true mission, they didn’t create an impact that would resonate beyond that moment, and engaging in them only slowed me down… some fights simply aren’t worth winning.

As followers of Christ, we will all be presented with battles every day, and many are directly tied to our mission in service to Him… but we aren’t meant to stop and engage in every adversarial interaction. By intentionally and prayerfully submitting each to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we can identify the difference between a stronghold we have been assigned to tear down and a wild-goose chase that only results in a hollow victory at best. Let’s avoid casting our pearls where they aren’t appreciated and maintain the high ground… the only way to win some battles is by choosing not to play.

It is honorable for a man to stop striving, since any fool can start a quarrel. Proverbs 20:3

Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. Matthew 7:6

But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth. 2 Timothy 2:23-25

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