Mistaking the real enemy
I've noticed that it's deceptively easy to get so busy at fighting against other things, that we can fail to recognize and fight the real enemy. The real enemy, obviously, is Satan. Yet, we often spend a lot of our energy fighting all kinds of other (more secular) things, such as taxes, political leaders, and so on, that we don't ever bother fighting Satan. Indeed, this is playing into Satan's hands. There is nothing he would like more than for you to be distracted into thinking that someone else is the bad guy. It's not that we shouldn't care at all about what's going on in the world, and things like social injustice. We should care, and caring translates into action. Going off on a rant or yelling at people is not really going to help. If caring about an issue translates into constructive action, fine. But I feel it's all too easy for me to do something totally non-constructive such as complain about something that's going on in the world, w...