Internal Conflicts

The guards at the walls have been posted, but rather than watch, they are looking within the walls and fail to see the enemy creeping up on the city. Creeping up to sack and destroy.

It has been a topsy turvy year, wonderful highs and wonderful lows. God has been faithful even when one has tried to be unfaithful, but then another story for another time. This came to my mind yesterday night and I just thought to share it, before it goes away entirely. Two passages came to my mind yesterday...

Amos 3:3, Can two walk together unless they be agreed? Two different people. One can put a thousand to flight, but two ten thousand. A three stranded cord is not easily broken, these are sayings which we well know but which most times I do not put into practice. Am not talking about your relationship with the 6billion or so people on earth now, am talking about your relationship with you. The parts that make up you, the spirit, body and soul. I am talking about the internal conflicts that go on each day in our hearts and lives. Our wants vs our needs, the secret desires of our lives. Paul spoke of it in Romans 7 and 8, the war between the law of sin and death and the law of God. Now the more we struggle and war within, the more we fail to see the wonderful plan God has in store for us (I am speaking from experience as most of you will probably agree).

Matthew 6:33, Seek ye first God's kingdom and what to eat, what to wear and all will be given to you.
The truth which I fail to see sometimes is that all the things that can be gotten in the flesh can be gotten in the spirit as well, after all God created all things, for His pleasure and for ours. I fail to remember that what made Lucifer sin against God, was impatience and wants, impatience and wants for things that could have been his if only he had waited for God's time. And truly it is the same principle that is being worked out against us in this time . Impatience and our wants cause the internal strifes within us and while struggling we fail to see the enemy creeping up on us, or we fail to see that we are becoming a part of the very thing we are fighting against.

Delve deeper, two words that came to me sometime ago, deeper into the word, dig deep, if u spend ur time digging and spreading your roots out on the word of God, ur tree truly will blossom. Focus on the unseen people, the foundations and roots of your life. The parts unseen will determine what is seen in your life by the world around you.