Take Sides

 To take sides is to show support, to choose who to show solidarity to or the group or camp to identify with.

Taking sides has everything to do with your choice, the decision you make.

The ability to make decisions and the free will to choose is one of the rights God has given to humanity.

There will be times we have to take sides in life, since there will be times we have to be clear whose side we are on.

During those physical education classes in high school, our physical education tutors would split us into groups or two sides, and both sides would compete on the task/sport assigned.

From time to time, a fortunate student would not be assigned to a group or camp by the teacher, instead the  student is given the privilege to choose a side.

When situations and cases are presented before us, we have to chose who we believe and who we doubt in the matter. Whose side we will be on and whose side we will not take,

It is wise to be on the side of Truth.

Your choice is a reflection of your wisdom, your decision is an evidence of how much understanding you have.

Use your right to choose and don't let anyone rob you of it or take it away from you, your choice is yours and an integral part of your life.

With the freedom to choose comes the need for responsibility.

The responsible know their choices and decisions have consequences.

The wise know it is not every decision people are making in the present they will be proud of or happy about in the future.

Wisdom is a huge requirement in making the best choices and decisions.

A decision can seem right in the present, yet it might leave an individual looking back in the future regretting that decision in hindsight.

Some choices and decisions are easier to make than the other, some choices are also more important than the other.

You will have to make choices and decisions in this life, make good ones.

An important decision you will have to make in this life is the decision of which camp you will belong to and identify with.

It is choice all souls must make.

It is a choice angels had to make.

It's a choice between light and darkness, good and evil, the kingdom of God and the gates of hades.

It is a choice between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of darkness.

War once broke out in the kingdom of heaven leading to a war of stars.

This is the real life star wars, not the fictional Star Wars films created by George Lucas.

Angels are stars, they are called stars.

It happened because an influential angelic star made a poor choice, a choice to doubt his creator, a choice to question the justice of his maker, a decision to doubt the love and fairness of his God, the God who had given him everything- beauty, perfection, wisdom, charisma, leadership, anointing and rank.

He doubted the God who chose him to be an ornament of beauty and covering over His throne.

He turned against his creator who blessed him with exceptional talents for worship and instruments.

He was first in rank in terms of privilege and access to places in God other angels didn't have.

He was given an ability to choose and make decisions too.

He chose wrongly, he made a poor decision.

His choice was motivated by pride and his decision by over ambition.

He failed to understand no one can be more than what heaven permits them to be.

He chose to be a betrayer instead of the noble light bearer he had been since he was formed and forged.

He was not content being an angel, he wanted to be more than heaven had graced him to be.

He wanted worship, he wanted to create, he exalted himself, he wanted a throne above God's throne, he wanted to be God!

The Creator world not have it.

He couldn't stay in heaven.

He had lost it all, the glory, the privilege, the access and the beauty of heaven.

He resisted his maker, he challenged his God,

He fell, and there was a void in heaven.

No angel was exactly like Lucifer in uniqueness, charisma and talent.

He had to be replaced, there was a void in heaven. One of the brightest lights had fallen to darkness!

Tragic!

Man was created, Adam was made by God, he was to replace Lucifer who had become Satan at his fall.

Adam was molded from the dust of the ground not from the fires of heaven Lucifer and the angelic hosts were made from.

Satan felt insulted, his pride wouldn't take it.

From that moment, he started plotting the downfall of man.

Humanity was to be the new carriers of the glory of God.

Adam was blessed with territory Lucifer never had, God gave him the earth.

The angels were lower than him in rank, in the order of creation.

Their job was to watch over him.

No other creation carried the image and likeness of God.

He had the Creator's blessing!

God also gave him a wife, a companion with which to live forever and procreate, populating the earth.

That kind of privilege hadn't been extended to angels, neither could Satan comprehend the love God has for man.

He became a sworn enemy of mankind, especially the saints; those who have made God their Father and have gone back to being in God's image through the salvation Jesus brought.

For this reason, the enemy's camp works day and night to pull down humanity, especially the true followers of Jesus Christ.

There are two camps- the Lord's camp and the enemy's camp.

The camp of light and the camp of darkness.

We are in one or the other.

You don't necessarily need to do anything to be in the camp of darkness, human nature automatically recruits us there once we have reached an age of accountability.

Joining the camp of light is a translation that happens through Jesus the Savior.

It requires being sincere, being intentional about being on the Lord's side and it demands repentance.

In life we have to take sides.

We can't be in the middle.

The enemy wants you to fall like he has.

He was cast out of heaven, he lost his glory and access to the Godhead.

He lost his destiny, now he wants you to lose yours.

I will advice you don't stay in his camp a minute longer.

He cheated himself out of his own destiny, don't let him trick you into making the same error he made.

"Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”