Distance and Distortion

I shared yesterday about the battle with lies in the Christian walk. The enemy would love to whisper accusations and lies to us.  Two more quick things on this topic, today and tomorrow, before we dive back into our walk through the Word.

*Interruption: I just returned from our first session of Women’s Bible Study, studying Anointed, Transformed, Redeemed, a study of the life of David. What a phenomenal study and great reminder that this is not a playground, it’s a battlefield.  We have a great call on our lives and the enemy wants nothing more than to derail and destroy us and our effectiveness for the kingdom of God. I pray these two small nuggets will help us sharpen our swords and be watchful and alert.  Blessings to you.

Distance and Distortion:  

Satan’sgreatest desire is to turn us against God and turn us against God’s people.  You can bet your bottom dollar that if you are feeling like you don’t want to go to church or don’t want to fellowship with your Christian brothers or sisters or don’t want to get involved or just want to hide and isolate yourself–you can bet the enemy is at work. Those are his trademarks.  The remedy? Yes, truth, yes the Word of God, yes prayer. And this:

Get close.

With distance there is a much greater opportunity for distortion.  When two friends don’t talk, when we’re not connected to our church, when a marriage partners don’t communicate–whenever we allow distance to come between ourselves and those important relationships around us, we are tremendously vulnerable to attack. Couple this with fatigue and physical weakness and we are vulnerable. This is the same way that the Amalekites attacked the stragglers of the nation of Israel, the weak, those lagging behind, when they were journeying out from Egypt (Deut 25).

We have to just get closer.  When we allow too much distance we fall prey to a distorted view of others and of situations.  Don’t lose sight of what’s real. Get close.

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In what way has distanced possibly distorted your view of a situation or relationship? How could you get close?  What steps can you take to narrow the gap and remove the opportunity for Satan to bring division?