All tagged Conflict

Thoughts on Mother’s Day, and finding God’s Peace

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Forgiveness, Restoration

Yesterday was Mother’s Day, and mothers were widely celebrated with phone calls, visits, and gifts, but in the year since the previous Mother’s Day many children had lost their mother, and men had lost their wives who had blessed them with children. In the midst of our joyous celebration we can find ourselves saddened, and sometimes feeling bitter towards God in the midst of our mourning. But in all things, even the loss of a mother, or wife, we should worship, and call out blessings to God. Job shows us this after losing all of his children to a tragic storm.

Unable to avoid Sin an Temptation; Fighting the Schoolyard Bullies

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Sin, Temptation, Armor, Conflict

How do you confront sin? Do you look it in the eye and try to overpower it? Do you ignore it and go about your business, or perhaps you do what any animal does when it doesn’t want to fight... it runs. Getting as far away from evil as quickly as we can is a good strategy when it comes to temptation and sin. Confronting Satan isn’t something to be taken lightly.

Sin, and the War that Rages Within Us

Richard Forbes
Flesh, Conflict, Daily Devotion, Christian, Sin, Spirit

Do you find yourself to be at war within? Are you in the midst of a battle between your mind and your body, between the weakness of your flesh that is so often made to kneel before God, and the spirit which actually worships Him? We never have to look far as we seek to understand if there truly is both a physical and a spiritual world, because we live with one foot in each, and this tenuous stance threatens constantly to destroy us as our spirit works to tame the man of flesh who walks towards sin.

Victory; the Outcome of Waiting on God Amidst the Battle

Richard Forbes
Faith, Conflict, Christian, Good, Evil, Daily Devotion

How strong is your faith? Is it strong enough that you can face the hatred of those around you? Is your faith firm enough to withstand the trials and persecution that nonbelievers will put you through? Is it like steel when Satan comes against you because of it? Is it invincible even when those who you love, and that you thought loved you, turn against you for it? When your faith has grown, and becomes like an adornment of shiny armor, that is when the evil one will test you with all the weapons at his disposal. It is then that you must trust wholeheartedly in the Lord because at that moment your very soul lies in the balance.

Body, Church, Calling, but are we really of One Spirit?

Richard Forbes
Church, Christian, Conflict, Prayer, Daily Devotion, Jesus, Oneness, Humility

How many churches are there within your congregation? How many groups of different mind, and various agenda, are milling about one another, and often find themselves at loggerheads? This is what happens when we lose focus on maintaining ourselves in the image of Jesus Christ. This is what occurs when a marriage ceases to be of one flesh.