A House Divided!!

Recently I was playing a game on my computer as I took a break from working on my book. The game I was playing had a bunch of bubbles on the screen and my purpose was to group like colors together and bust up as many groups as I could until the game was over. If I placed a purple bubble with a blue one, then after so many tries the game would add a new level of bubbles until the screen filled up and I lost. I became fascinated with trying to bust of the groups of colors and rid the screen of my obstacles, thereby winning.

After a while of playing, I noticed that I seemed to have developed a pattern of shooting the bubbles on the lower part of the screen and only getting those closest to me. I was making progress, but it was slow and it took me a long time to win the whole game. I studied the screen carefully each time my new bubble came up in the queue before I shot it. I thought if I aimed at the top of the screen where like colors were, I could form a group and split the whole screen down the middle, causing half of the bubbles to fall at once. That would allow me to win quicker. So that became my goal.

I was going to divide the groups, take them all down and win the game. My strategy was to take them out at the top and cause the others to fall as collateral damage. Going after each of them one by one was a time waster and made it harder to win. So I set my sights on the middle of the board and began shooting. Winning became easy after that. I hardly failed and started to rise in the rankings section of the game.

It made me think of things that have taken place in our society lately. How things are seemingly falling apart and taking down others in their way.

I'm not trying to direct our attention again to the "race wars" that are being encouraged because I wish it would all go away, but I do want to use it as an example here.

We are all like the bubbles on the screen. All beautiful, different colors together in one place. We have an opponent who wants to bust up our beautiful, harmonious picture.

So what did that opponent do?

He began to place "like" colors together. The pinks with the pinks, the blues with the blues, the greens and so on. Small groups were being taken out one at a time, until one day, he realized that by placing one bubble in just the right spot, he could divide the whole board and cause many others to fall as well. It became the way of dividing and conquering the colors on the game.

Sadly, they were no longer all in a peaceful existence on the board. Now they were all clustering together in their own groups of colors, waiting to be taken out by the one playing the game.

It's sad that's happened to our society as well.

Who is to blame for it?

Who is the opponent that's doing it all?

The media? Some would say yes, some would say no.

I say it's our enemy, Satan. The one who roams around looking for whom he may devour. He stirs up trouble and lies to us all until we are fighting against each other. The Bible tells us plainly who is behind confusion and strife.

The world doesn't understand these things because they are not living for God. But we as Christians know it. And we ought to be doing something about it. We should be on our faces praying about it all. We should be using our authority given to us in the name of Jesus to bind the spirits of division and confusion. We CAN make a difference in this world. We just have to do it!

For a while, it seemed that every piece of news I heard was about the statues and racism. Then it became about the eclipse and the hurricanes. Now it's turning back to plaques, statues and racism again. I for one am sick of it. I have been praying that God will open some eyes for others to see who is behind it all and draw us together as a nation instead of being divided and falling apart.

Like I said, I'm not trying to put the focus back on this topic because I hate it. But let's face it, if we don't go to God and pray that He intervenes, then it will get worse.

It's not just about racism either. The devil uses the same tactics in marriages, friendships, relationships, churches, workplaces, you name it.

If he can get to the top of a business, then the whole business fails, thus putting a lot of workers out of jobs. If he can get to a man and cause him to make a bad decision, then he can destroy a marriage, thus causing the wife and children pain and sorrow. It's the same in churches as well. If our enemy can come in and cause the pastor to get irritated and burdened down, he can use that to cause him or her to quit and give up, leaving the church in shambles. I've seen this happen all to often in homes, businesses, churches, and now in our society as we continue to fight the each other.

Please go to God with this and pray for His intervention for our country. It's the only thing that will help us.

Much love

Christy

Helpful verses:

1 Peter 5:8;

Addendum: I wrote this blog yesterday and then felt led to add this to it today, so I'll put it here.

I've seen this happen as well and I wanted to share it.

In many families, you'll see trouble when teenagers begin doing things they shouldn't.

It can range from drugs to drinking to just plain rebelling against authority. Satan will use any tactic he can to disrupt a household and family. Sometimes when he leads the kids astray it brings turmoil to the parent's marriage and causes it to fail. But on some occasions when the marriage doesn't fall apart and the parents band together in difficult times, he will come in another way to try and break up the family unit.

God established families in the beginning and aside from your relationship with Him, it's the most important thing in life, in my opinion. Some of you who don't know me, won't realize for a while why I feel that way until you hear my testimony. But when the enemy sees that he can't use the children's problems to break up a family, he'll use other means. He will stop at nothing to divide a man and wife, thus causing the whole family to crumble. It could come in as addiction to pornography, alcohol, straying outside the marriage with someone else, etc.

Please be on guard, watch carefully, protect your homes and marriages at all cost. It's one of the most important things you'll ever have in life.