Do Not Be Like Cain

1 John 3:12 "Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother.  And why did he murder him?  Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous."
 Lord, even from the beginning, Satan and his devils have wanted to destroy You and all of Your righteous ones.
My Husband and I just finished Frank Peretti's two books "This Present Darkness" and "Piercing the Darkness" .  Although he wrote  them as novels back in the 1980s, the truth of the content describing what we are living now is uncanny.  He brings to light how the ACLU (no he does not call them that in the books) has their evil fingers in all walks of power from the local level in tiny towns to the Supreme Court, and how  New Age thinking and Eastern mysticism infiltrates  our schools and churches.  He also shows how the power of praying saints empower God's holy angels to work on behalf of His saints to uncover and reveal the evil that abounds around us.  He really did his homework.  Thirty years later the effects are even more evident: unfounded child abuse and molestation cases (some founded and some not) being brought against Christian parents, churches, and schools are publicized and exaggerated in the media (almost with glee), home schooling parents are degraded and persecuted as are their children by the "professionals" in the public schools, which turn out few real champions with stellar education.
   Lord, we must be diligent in our prayer life and vigilant!  We must know the truth of Your Word.  We must, "Study to show yourselves approved unto God a workman a workman that needs not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."