Psalms 22:9
Who is our actual foe? It can't be another human being. It must be the Devil and the demons. If we are warring against the sinful nature of the Devil daily, then our actual foe is the Devil. But, the Devil has its agents and they are the demons that followed him out of heaven to their own destruction. The Devil and the demons do not act by themselves. they seek human dwellings. Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, saw the Devil as a friend and trusted his words. Thats where everything started. In whose words do you trust. In God's or the Devil's? Adam and Eve chose the Devil's above God's. There is no point in blaming Adam and Eve. What about you and me today, do we do the same? Do you trust the words of your actual foe? Your actual foe is the Devil, do you trust his words more than God's? Do you trust the words of your Enemy? Do you trust in the words of God's Enemy? God's Enemy is your Enemy too. We should know who is the actual Friend and the actual Enemy.
James 4:1-12
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires
that battle within you?
You want something but don't get it.
You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you
want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you
ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your
pleasures. You adulterous people, don't
you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who
chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the
spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? But he gives us more grace. That is
why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." Submit yourselves, then, to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near
to you. Wash your
hands, you sinners,
and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your
laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord,
and he will lift you up. Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who
speaks against his brother or judges him speaks
against the law and judges
it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting
in judgment on it. There
is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you--who
are you to judge your neighbor?
