Misunderstanding

One of the techniques frequently used by Satan to attack the believers is "misunderstanding." These days I have been experiencing this a lot, either of myself or  of other brothers and sisters.

For years, problems have been going on between couples. Whatever the wife does is with the best intention, yet whatever the husband understood of what his wife does to him is exactly opposite. Goodwill from one end has become enmity in the other end and vice versa.  By the Lord's mercy, though I am still a novice in matters concerning life, the Lord has given me opportunities to learn from real life cases of couples, including mine own.

One such case is what I have been caring for. The duo often got into troubles and when it almost hit their rock bottom, I got involved, mostly by invitation. On dealing each individual personally and hearing whatever they have to say or opined of their partners, each of them are absolutely right in their own sight. Yet, put together, none of them are right and resulted in verbal fights, if not, physical. Where and how and when did the relationship went wrong? On prayer and discernment with sober mind, and considering over the matter and praying it over and over again, the Lord's light dawned on me. It's a mere "misunderstanding" between and among themselves! But who caused the misunderstanding?

When believers neglect their basic exercise of contacting the Lord in prayer, eating the Lord in the Word and  fellowshipping with the members of the Body in the local church in their locality, there is a huge gap of spiritual dryness due to divine malnutrition which gives ground for Satan to creep in stealthily to tamper with the communication between the saints and brings in misunderstanding, leading to soulish exercises on the line of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and finally bringing in spiritual dead among all, resulting even in avoidance of any attempt for revival again. On the one hand it is Satan behind the scene, yet on the other hand, it is the believers' immaturity in neglecting the basic and normal healthy-balanced-spiritual-diet.

The only solution to misunderstanding is the exercise of our human spirit to touch the Lord as life and life-supply, eating the tree of life, enjoying and experiencing Him everyday and never giving ground to the enemy in any way. 

Lord, preserve me to live and walk according to the spirit and to eat the tree of life daily.