Strife

How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony! Psalm 133:1

Lately I have heard of many friends estranged from family members. Bitterness, strife,and hatred abound. The family  is important and many factors go into making a healthy functional one but let the enemy get a foothold he destroys the family. Siblings angry and refusing to reconcile. A parent who disowns their own flesh and blood. Just meanness when Satan gets his way. This is never what God wanted.

It could be a host of factors contributing to this breakdown but the underlying cause is the great divider and destroyer Satan. He destroys marriages, breaks up friendships, drives wedges in family relations. Until you realize this and want to do something it will remain the same. 

Every relationship and every person is redeemable. God Loves even jerks, believe it or not. Maybe you are reading this and have no issues but know of others who do. Lift them up to Jesus to be healed, restored, and  set free. Going through life bitter and full of strife was never God’s Plan. Forgive those who have hurt you even if you feel they are unworthy. No one is unworthy in God’s eyes. Don’t wish evil on others but ask God to heal and set them free. Then pray for your own heart to be healed. 

PRAYER: You desire unity and peace in relationships. I pray for those I know who are at odds with a family member. I pray for the family unit to be healed and restored as you intended it in the first place. In Jesus’ name. Amen.