Enemy of the State

You are about to enter into a world sure of some things,  gravity pulls you down, matter cannot change, buildings remain the same, but no matter what happens things keep changing, it is as if the world itself is against you…   

Imagine that you are a secret agent trying to kill the #1 enemy of the state.  This enemy is not like anyone you can imagine.  He is worse the Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, Nero….He attacks the mind of those around him, making him puppets to do his will.  You must stay ever-vigilant in your fight against him so that you do not fall prey to his attacks, and become yet another zombie following him.  

Your luck has changed, and you have caught wind of his secret hide-out, but not some far off cave he is right here in your city.  Never did you think you could be so fortunate in your fight.  You hunt him day and night and then…You can see him in your sights.  Just as you think you have killed him, fired the deadly shot, the world shifts…blinks and jumps.  What you thought was your 9mm, government issue pistol in your hand is no more; what you thought was the thunder of the bullet just you yelling bang, and once again your “prey” is out of sight, and worse still you have lost your weapon.  You panic and try to regain your headings.  Two things become crystal clear to you, first: you must try and find the weapon again, and second: you must try to search for and kill the enemy.  

You grab your faithful partner and start to pick up the trail.  He leads you to a tall building with classic, Greek architecture.  Huge columns supporting a giant bowl shaped balcony.  As you approach you can see the unthinkable happening…there are people blindly walking off the building to their death, but worse still you can see your weapon.  A man is holding it and just shooting blindly into a crowd of people.  When they are hit they fall dead.  No one seems to care that people are dying all around them, worse still is that they keep walking toward the edge and when the reach the edge, they don’t stop, they don’t take a second thought they just keep walking as if they are expecting the balcony to continue, when it clearly doesn’t.  This is clearly the work of the enemy who you see laughing in the middle of the crowd holding up his hand like a gun and shooting at the crowd, when he shoots people are falling dead because of the man using your weapon.

With sudden urgency you know that you must reach this evil thing.  You start to run to the building and you reach the main floor but there aren’t any doors on the front of the building.  You run around till you find an open door.  You get inside to find people walking, walking, walking, running into doors but being so blind to the world around them they just keep walking again and again running into the doors.  You hurry to a door marked stairs and run into it.  You run up what seems like hundreds of stairs before you find this top floor, the main floor where everyone is walking to their death.    In the vast ballroom you see the mad-man, the enemy and start to run towards him.  You are about to tackle him, thinking that all this is over when the world shifts…blinks and jumps again.  The enemy disappears and you go sliding into the hallway.  You get up desperate to catch this evil fiend.  Knowing the layout of the building you and your partner decide to split up you were going to run right and she is going to run left, and you will meet somewhere in the middle of this vast circular tower.  As you start to run it happens again the world shifts, blinks and jumps.  The hallway seems to start to fall apart the tiles tart to separate and twist the floor is no longer flat and it seems to move about like a roller coaster.  The harder you try the harder it is to move, like trying to escape from quick sand, your struggles just make it impossible to get free.  Then something catches your eye.   It’s a….It’s a….man….Calm and serene.  Not trying to catch the enemy nor overcome by his pull, he is just looking at you.  With the most peaceful and calm face you have ever seen.  Suddenly you recognize this man, He is Christ.  

You fall and bow at his feet, and the whole place seems to stop moving. You weep before him and start to plead for his help.  In an instant the enemy is defeated and people return back to normal, your world is normal….is brought to peace once more.  Allow Jesus to be your “secret weapon” and aim Him at the enemy of the state…of your mind.  Find peace tonight with Jesus. 

There are things in life that seem unobtainable.  We can try with all our might to become a better man.  We can struggle, stretch and chaise after dreams and goals, but no matter how hard we try they are just out of reach.   Think of yourself as someone entering into an Alice and wonderland type world, trying to kill the jabberwocky.  The things you take for granted are no more.  There is but one thing that remains…God.  There is not place you can go to get away from him, no place you can hide, even into the very lair of the evil one, God is still there, and it makes him shutter.  In this story the evil one, is that sin, that wrong thing, that monkey on our back that we refuse to let go.  We have tried to take it out ourselves.  We have fought with it numerous times but without the help of God we will never have victory over it.  Only when we stop and bow and God’s feet, at the feet of Jesus and ask for his help, laying down our troubles before him can we rid ourselves of this affliction.   In the story only when he tried nothing, and allowed Christ to help did the world return to peace.  

You may be going through some hard times.  You all have your own enemies, and struggles, but allow Christ to take care of it for you.  Allow him to overcome for you, because He already has victory.  Turn your struggles over to him.