Sister/Brother Know Thy Enemy

One might like to believe, we have not one enemy in the world,  However, Christian history has recorded we have at least one.  This character of no mercy has many faces.  Yet we try not to acknowledge its existence as not to give it the attention and credit it so desires and needs to create mayhem and destruction in our lives. 

So we examine our friends, our family and our neighbors, our bosses and associates, affiliates and business liaison's.  At times we question their integrity, and moral fiber is it like or unlike our own? What are signs or our mortal enemy?  What have I done to deserve such a foe?  This my friends is a dilemma even Jesus himself could not solve.  He knew who would betray him but he could not prevent it.  So I say again, who are your enemies?  Could it be a family member who doesn't want to see you climb above them? Is it someone who  is angry for something you did when you were a child and have long forgotten?  Is it a landlord,  co-worker, associate?  Do you have a superior who you believe just doesn't like you; the way you look, your attitude or your status with others? Is he someone who proceeds to wait for the kill or hones in with their criticism and annihilation?

I say this, your enemy is not any of these people above mentioned.  Your enemy is ignorance. It is the one thing that can destroy a land and all that endure within.  Ignorance and negativity is the enemy in our lives.  Ignorance saps our strength it attacks our  bodies, our minds and our ability to do positive things.   Thomas Edison built a massive  Lab in West  Orange New Jersey in his late sixties.  This lab was  a true love of his life The complex was comprised of fourteen buildings greater than three football fields in size.  In these buildings would come prototypes, manufactured products he shipped to his customers.  In December 1914  his beloved lab caught fire.   Most people would have been crushed to see a lifelong dream destroyed.  Edison did not.  He was quoted to say "I am sixty-seven, but not too old to make a fresh start".  "I've been through a lot of things like this."  And rebuild he did.  Edison worked for another seventeen years after the rebuilding of the plant. Had he let the enemy get in his way or take over his dream, he would have lost his lab forever. 

Proverbs 16 verse 3 says  " Commit thy works unto the Lord  and thy thoughts shall be established" 4 "The lord hath made all things for himself yea even the wicked for the day of evil", 5 "Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord":  6, "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil" So 7" When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. 8 Better is a little with righteousness then great  revenues without right. 9  A mans heart deviseth his way but the Lord directs his steps.


Stand tall, be positive, don't quit for "There is no defeat except in no longer trying. There is no defeat save within, nor really insurmountable barrier, save our own inherent weakness of purpose ~Elbert Hubbard~