We found a rattlesnake in our yard yesterday. Luckily, I have a son who knew how to help! Satan is like this rattlesnake, sneaking into our space, ever so slyly ready at any moment to strike not only FEAR but poison into our blood if we get too close to him. As I have studied about the conspiracies that are possibly playing out, I have recently noticed that the biggest one is Satan's conspiracy against the children of God. The peacemakers. The people who try to do everything they are supposed to do without complaining or arguing. As I have watched (and sometimes participated in) the bickering back and forth between good people over a piece of cloth and what it can and cannot do, and how they have let it drive them apart or bring them together, and the very strange relatively new behaviors of the government, YouTube and FB of not trusting people to make their own decisions about information presented and precautions to take, and not only people not trusting professionals (for various reasons) but professionals not trusting professionals and not even being willing to look unbiased into the other's point of view, etc..., my heart has been what I think is called "overcharged" in the scriptures. So many things happening so quickly, and emotions all over the place for so many. "Take heed to yourself, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting... and the day come upon you unawares." (Luke chapter 21) What is surfeiting? It is getting so much of something that you can't stand to have it anymore. Sound familiar?
I have thought about the night that I watched the State of the Union Address. The contention present there was so thick you could cut it. The sharp division that was so plain to see and the biases and rudeness that one could easily observe as well... "A house divided against itself cannot stand" is the phrase that came to my mind. A minute later my 6 year old son said, "Mom, How can this house even stay built?" I told him by loving each other. We are witnessing what happens when a nation is not united. Satan has crafted this plan and crept into our space as a people who were and are supposed to be one nation under God. And he has struck fear into a lot of people's hearts. Some have been poisoned as well. This is sad, to say the very least.
I have thought about the night that I watched the State of the Union Address. The contention present there was so thick you could cut it. The sharp division that was so plain to see and the biases and rudeness that one could easily observe as well... "A house divided against itself cannot stand" is the phrase that came to my mind. A minute later my 6 year old son said, "Mom, How can this house even stay built?" I told him by loving each other. We are witnessing what happens when a nation is not united. Satan has crafted this plan and crept into our space as a people who were and are supposed to be one nation under God. And he has struck fear into a lot of people's hearts. Some have been poisoned as well. This is sad, to say the very least.
"Take heed to yourselves"... As I read that, I wondered what it meant and the spirit told me, for me, it meant to take good care of myself. My husband, my home, my children, and others all need me to take care of me so that I can take care of them and help them when they need it. I came across an article this morning (linked at the end) and quite loved it! The Holy Spirit told me to share it. My prayer right now is that all of us can take good care of our selves, our families, and our neighbors, remembering the 1st and second great commandments, and what true religion is. James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."
In conclusion, I thought of the symbolism of my son fixing our snake problem. It reminded me of The Son of God being The Solution to the "serpent" problem we are facing today. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
Here is the article.
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2020-05-20/covid-19-elder-renlund-personal-revelation-uncertainty-184629
In conclusion, I thought of the symbolism of my son fixing our snake problem. It reminded me of The Son of God being The Solution to the "serpent" problem we are facing today. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
Here is the article.
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2020-05-20/covid-19-elder-renlund-personal-revelation-uncertainty-184629
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