Confusion

Our God is not a God of confusion. I tell myself this constantly. I don't know, maybe its just me, but I feel like the whole world is confused, and I'm swimming in it. Its not something I've thought about a whole lot, but just recently I feel that God has revealed to me what a strong tactic of the enemy confusion is.

That's right, the enemy is using confusion to hinder God's people everywhere. If he can confuse us, he can stop us from doing the work of the Lord. There are so many instances I could give of confusion; I feel that there are two levels of confusion: we are confused on a personal level and we are confused as a church.

Lets first tackle the personal level. I have seen in my life and the lives of my closest friends that confusion is something Satan is throwing our way everyday. He has confused me about my relationships with other people, he has confused me about what I should do with my future, and he has confused my identity. Why would he do this? Because he knows if he can confuse me he can stall my ministry, but let me be very clear, all he is doing is stalling me, he cannot stop the will of God.

Secondly, he is confusing us as a church. I recently learned in my New Testament class that the reason the book of Matthew was written is because the church was undergoing somewhat of a identity crisis. I feel that the same thing is going on today. We have become so divided that we have strayed away from the scripture that tells us there is only one truth. We have all conceived in our minds our own versions of the truth and when there are so many different versions of the truth it becomes one thing: confusing.

How on earth are we supposed to win others to Christ when there are so many different versions of the truth? Its almost impossible.

However, we should not be dismayed by all of this. Just like any other tactic of the enemy, confusion can be fought off by prayer and fasting. God will open our eyes to the truth because, like I said before, He is not the author of confusion. Instead He is the author of peace.

More than anything, we should drill into the Word of God. It is only in his words that we find truth that cannot be shattered. This is what we read in I Timothy 4:

"The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving the spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.... If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. Train yourselves to be godly."

This should be our prayer, that we would not be tossed by the winds of false doctrines, that we would be firm in our faith and that we would hear God's voice in our lives so that we may lead others to Christ.