“If I were your enemy, I’d seek to disintegrate your family and destroy every member of it. ... I would make sure your family didn’t look anything like it’s supposed to. Because then people would look at your Christian marriage, your Christian kids, and see you’re no different, no stronger than anybody else---that God, underneath it all, really doesn’t change anything.” Priscilla writes our family ‘is a billboard for the eternal, unchangeable love story between God and humankind.’ How could that be? We’re so un-perfect. We routinely let our Father down. We seem to be focused on self way too often. We fight. We lie. What is there about our family relationships that resembles God’s love story with us? Even though our children may drive us crazy - they are our children. They are part of who we are. They look like us. They remind us of ourselves, and in them we find great joy. Once they come into our life we could never imagine being without them. And because of that great love we would do anything for them. Sacrifice. Support. Encourage. Protect. That’s just what God, our Father, did for us. That's what He wants us to give our family. Here’s what Satan wants us to do to our family. He wants to keep us from the Christ-like behavior of loving, sacrificing, protecting, and encouraging our family. Why? Because it makes us (a child of a loving Father of mercy and grace) look just like every other fallen individual who denies salvation and grace!!! When we pray for insight and wisdom, He, the Helper Christ gave us, gives us understanding of what’s going on, and why. He can show us the schemes the enemy of our soul - the one who only desires to destroy us. It’s the part about prayer that the enemy desperately wants to keep you from knowing AND USING! Jesus said, "The thief [the enemy] comes only to steal and kill and destroy..." John 10.10a If we ask for wisdom and God’s grace to see ~ AND PRAY ~ the real enemy WILL BE CLEARLY SEEN! ~ Andi
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