Ever since Adam and Eve broke the Oath Covenant with God, humanity has been playing The Blame Game. When will it end? Only when sin is done away with once and for all.
I'm sick and tired of the way so many people act like victims and they are not being victimized by who they think they are being victimized! It's not that they are not being hurt, shamed, or injured, it's that they're blaming the wrong people. And so many people blame God when He has never done anything wrong -- ever! So, if God isn't making your life a living Hell, then who is?
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
"Flesh and blood," as the apostle Paul writes, is understood as 'humanity'. In other words, our battle, our fight ... our struggle is NOT against our fellow man, woman, or child, but against the devil and his demons, or otherwise known as in Ephesians 6:12, rulers, authorities, powers, and spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. If we fight against our fellow man, woman, or child, we are fighting the wrong battle because, as humanity, we are fighting against ourselves! How well can an army win a fight when they're arguing, belittling, hurting, shaming, and taking out violent aggression on each other? Since the battle is real and within us, why are we arguing, belittling, hurting, shaming, and taking out violent aggression on ourselves and others? What is happening inside us that causes this battle to rage and who or what, exactly, are we battling?
“1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”
There's that word again: 'battle'. "Your desires that battle within you." Paul is saying the battle is within us. He's not writing to only one person, he's talking to all humanity. The battle is real. And it's where? Within us ... each and every single one of us. The actual source of our battle, fight, and struggle is the devil and his demons.
Now that you know this truth, I ask you, "Why are there mob bosses and terrorists who put hits out on people?" From James 4:2, he states, "You desire but do not have, so you kill." What is this desire that battles within mob bosses and terrorists? It's called vanity. Vanity is an ungodly desire to be worshiped as if a god and the people who do not bow down to their desires (worship them) must be eliminated. Guess where that desire comes from? You guessed it -- Satan himself.
Any organization that would shun or kill people who leave the organization is a cult and the only person who could conceive of such an evil system is the head of the most evil system (Hell). Not only does the devil, Satan, want to make us just like him, to be his human slaves, he would enjoy nothing more than for us to unwittingly spread his evil so he can, one day, have complete control over the Earth. As long as there are praying Christians and Messianic Jews in relationship with Jesus in the world, Satan cannot not have complete control. Anyone who argues, belittles, hurts, shames, and takes out violent aggression on ourselves and others is on "Satan's payroll".
“Any organization that would shun or kill people who leave the organization is a cult.”
Since the battle is real and within us, why are we arguing, belittling, hurting, shaming, and taking out violent aggression on ourselves and others? The battle rages between our rebellious souls and our resurrected spirit. At salvation, our spirit is made new. However, our soul requires sanctification. Our sin-motivated soul needs to be crucified, so to speak, or what we have termed sanctified or 'made holy'. Jesus called it "carrying your cross," and He said to carry it daily, which means we are to not only carry it, but never put it down; never stop the sanctification process.
Carrying our individual cross amounts to making decisions to defeat the enemy within us by choosing to give God the battle and allow God to gain us the victory. The more we decide to allow God to work inside us, the more He will gain us freedom from the devil's traps, the effects of our sins, and refine us and make us like Jesus. Jesus overcame the world not by force, but by loving grace and covenant love, which is the willingness to lay down your life (your free will, aka what you might rather do in a moment) for the good of others. The problem with sinful mankind is there is very little self-sacrifice and a whole lot of self-aggrandizing ... just like their father, Satan. They need a new father -- do you know of One they could adopt? :)
Jesus said, "In this world you will have trouble, but take heart! I have overcome the world," and John wrote, "Greater is He that is in you than he who is in the world (that is, Satan)."
Don't play the Blame Game. You are only as much a victim as you decide to be.
Prayer
Lord God Almighty, I thank You that You are so gracious and honorable. I am so thankful that You are not like mankind, but we can become like You! What an awesome honor and privilege to be made whole into the image of the Most High God! Help me to stop blaming people for things they have not done and help me to face the battle within me with courage and faith in You. Help me understand the fullness of what that really means because my mind rages in battle and I need Your divine help to break free from the stinkin' thinkin' that has kept me from Your best -- the life You made me to live. Now that I understand that the battle rages in me, I want You to reveal Yourself in the midst of my battle and bring me to victory in Jesus. I thank You, my Lord, for Your help and for the breakthroughs I have already experienced and for the ones that have not come yet. In Jesus' glorious name I pray, amen!