Who benefits from your anger and hatred? Is it you? And in what way?
Does your life expand positively because you hate your neighbor or your co-worker? If it does, how?
Do you get a warm and cozy feeling, when your government tells you to a pick a side? If it does, would you please share with all of us?
Would you have visited your friend in the hospital, if you hadn’t heard on the news that because of the color of their skin you can’t be friends?
Or I know, this side or the other is better because they agree with everything you believe and say?
What if I told you that your real enemy is the one that you can’t see pulling the strings, would you believe me? Or would you just say I can’t believe you because they didn’t say that on the news? Or in the school?
Have you ever stepped back to consider, who may benefit from your hatred and your blues? Is it really your co-worker or neighbor or the random person in the store?
Or is there more?
The Bible says, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” I Peter 5:8
Friends, your enemy is not the person that you work with or doesn’t look like you. It is the one that allows the devil to rule in their lives. That includes your favorite celebrities and authorities.
It is also the people who benefit from pain and suffering. Those hidden from sight.
The next time the media or the government tells you to believe something, ask yourself, who benefits from division and strife? I can almost guarantee you, it isn’t who you think it is.
In Christian love,
Angela