A House Divided

A House Divided: Exposing the Enemy's Strategy in the Racial Divide

To all the self-proclaimed social media civil rights detectives — the ones too impatient to wait for the facts before rendering a verdict — I need you to hear this: your impatience is being used. What if, when the full truth is revealed, there was no foul play, and the young man simply drowned? Would you repent? Or would you find a way to question that too? Many of you will. Because what's happening right now isn't really about justice. It's the enemy's plan to keep hatred alive between Black and white.

And we, as a people, have to be honest — we're being hypocrites. We stood behind the witnessed murder of Austin Metcalf and are now praying for the release and a new trial for the young man who was tried, found guilty, and convicted. But when a Black teenager drowns while surrounded by his lifelong white friends, suddenly it's "foul play," before a single fact has been confirmed. If we don't wake up and recognize what's really happening, the enemy will keep laughing — because we're doing his will for him, for free.

Mark 3:25 says it plainly: "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." That's not just a warning about a family or a church — it's a warning about a nation, and about a people. Division isn't a side effect of racism. It's the engine of it. The enemy doesn't need Black people and white people to hate each other for a reason — he just needs us distracted, defensive, and quick to assume the worst before the facts arrive. Every time we do that, we hand him another brick to build the wall higher. He doesn't have to lift a finger. We do the dividing for him, and then we call it discernment.

I will speak this truth: racism will remain alive as long as many of us — my own skin folk — keep it fed. We've built an idol and called it "Blackness," and we bow to it faster than we bow to the God who made us. An idol doesn't have to be a golden calf. It can be an identity we protect harder than we protect the truth. It can be an outrage we reach for before we reach for the facts. Repentance isn't weakness — it's the only thing that starves what we've been feeding.