I ate chicken noodle soup---hold the chicken---today.
You know what you tell the doctor when you have five kids, and she tells you that you have strep?
"You need to make me well...ASAP. I don't have time for this."
To which she replies, "You need to rest."
So...here's to doctors everywhere who have NO IDEA what it's like to have children, much less five children (She raises her hot herbal tea high).
One thing that seems to be a theme this "go 'round" of this fast is UNITY. You have to love election years. They have a knack for turning friends against each other, and kind people in to mean people. There is nothing quite like an election year to give people FULL GROUNDS to "speak their truth"...in "love." You know, the kind that is "out of concern for you" (as if you've lost your mind).
I don't understand this phenomenon. I mean, the Christian majority of this country of ours has gone all but completely silent, standing aside while issues that should grieve us to the core have gone largely unchecked. But, give Christians an election year, and we will lash out at every single candidate AND each other. Where is the fruit in that?
Satan uses divisiveness as a main tool to make way for his plans. I was looking over my Holy Yoga training notes from a couple years ago yesterday morning. I'll share a few points:
Satan is totally unoriginal.
He is up to the same 'ole schemes he's always been up to.
He is a one trick pony.
The thing that comes to mind, and that has been a theme as of late as originally brought up by my new friend, Ashley, is that the easiest win for Satan is when he can trick people into being divided. "Satan is a ONE TRICK PONY." If it has worked once for Satan, it's worked a thousand times. And, if it's worked a thousand times, it should work a thousand more for him. Can't we all CATCH ON?! We are LOSING against these schemes if we don't take a stand against them!
Divisiveness is a win-win for the losing team.
"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: if either of them falls down, one can help the other up...Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?...two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." ~Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12
We are meant to do life TOGETHER...UNIFIED in mission, not arguing and angrily trying to prove our point. It's detrimental to the Gospel message AND politics. We spend all our time trying NOT to judge, but bring in a Presidential candidate who claims to be Christian, and we will RAKE HIM ACROSS THE COALS judging whether or not he's ACTUALLY saved. Where's the fruit in that? Moreover, do we actually think that, in that moment, we are representing Jesus well? We are not. We are all hypocrites in that moment.
"So Jesus called them and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. " ~Mark 3:23-25
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