My Enemy’s Potential

Your friends will help you do the possible.

Your enemies will help you do the impossible.

Be thankful for your enemies.

Enemies like knives cut. Feel the cold steel blade of their words and actions peeling open your emotional and mental skin. It’s painful, very painful. The cuts are deep and repetitive. Feel the liquid life of your blood crawl down your back from the stab of someone close to you. Your Frenemy. Your friend and your enemy both in one person.

Make your enemy your servant. How? How do I do this, you ask? Recognize the Hand that’s holding the knife. Focus on the Hand, not the knife. The ultimate Hand behind the knife is of One Who deeply loves you. And though so very painful, through every circumstance and situation in life, He operates with the precision of a surgeon. Like a sculptor, He chisels away at your life, knowing before He started, what the finished product would look like. God, the Divine Sculptor, is making you a masterpiece. So, calm down, still yourself.  Stop losing your composure.  Poise yourself. The Master is at work!

I remind you that even the Devil is God’s Devil (Luther). Yes, even Satan, the snake that He is, is God’s snake. Wow!

Enemies, if they do nothing else, serve to only drive you back to trusting nobody but God. You might lose everything and everybody that was dear to you. But don’t think for one nanosecond that you can lose God or that God can lose you. Nothing can separate us from God.

So thank God for anyone or anything that has forced you into a situation where God is all you have. It’s here that you discover by experience that God was all that you ever needed.

The writer wrote these lyrics, “On Christ the solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.”  Since that is a true statement, then you can be thankful for anyone or anything that has now put you on a firm foundation. If someone or something has caused you to lose your job, maybe you were putting too much trust in your job. Jobs don’t take care of you. God does. Maybe you were giving credit to your employer that belonged to God.

I wrote something just for you…

In losing everything
I thought I would have died
Instead of loss, there’s gain
With God alone I’m satisfied

My enemies didn’t cost me
Although their best they tried
I’m worry free, and full of joy
Now is God most glorified.

Glorified because I’m satisfied
Satisfied with Him alone
In Him I now have more
Tho everything is gone.

- G. Faulkner