By Annalisa Boyd
Original post found at Phoebe Farag Mikhail’s blog Being in Community (June 5, 2020)
We have a common enemy and it is not a race or a religion or class.
The enemy is a chameleon. Where it can destroy because of race it does. Where it can destroy because of class, it does. Where it can destroy because of religion or region or accent, it does. But it is the same enemy. If we stop long enough we can turn and stand together and fight together against the common enemy, Satan.
Where God brings love, he brings hatred. Where God brings unity, he brings division. Where God brings hope, Satan brings hopelessness and despondency. God call us sons and daughters…co heirs, Satan calls us illegitimate.
Where God focuses on oneness in Him, Satan encourages us to focus on our differences and to categorize the value of a man or woman or child in any way that breaks us away from the truth and isolates us from love.
We can NOT remain silent but we must make sure we are fighting the right enemy. If we fight each other we will not have the strength to stand in the end.
May God give us courage like those who have left the world behind to follow Him in hope and love.
May God make us like the saints amd martyrs who had hope in the resurrection and the world to come.
May God remove the scales from our eyes like he did for Saint Paul who held the coats of those who murdered Saint Stephen and then united Jew and Greek into one faith.
May God have mercy on us all!
(c) Phoebe Farag Mikhail (2020). Being in Community. A Common Enemy by Annalisa Boyd. Original post- https://beingincommunity.com/a-common-enemy/