1. When Everything Feels Fractured
If you’ve felt the world getting louder, meaner, and more divided, you’re not imagining it. Friends who used to laugh together now argue about headlines. Families break apart over social posts. Even churches and companies split over issues that once would’ve sparked healthy debate.
What changed?
Division stopped being a by-product of disagreement and became a business model. Outrage sells. Fear glues eyeballs to screens. And somewhere along the line, humanity forgot that disagreement doesn’t have to mean disconnection.
2. The Old Enemy With New Tools
Scripture calls them “powers and principalities.” Today, they manifest through algorithms, propaganda, and echo chambers that reward emotional extremity. This isn’t conspiracy, it’s commerce. “The more polarized we become, the more predictable we are.” Fear makes us buy, click, and obey. The unseen intelligence behind division has simply digitized its methods.
3. Lies Seasoned With Truth
Evil rarely announces itself with a pitchfork. It shows up as a partial truth:
- “You’re fighting for justice.” (True.)
- “…so anyone who disagrees is the enemy.” (Lie.)
- “You’re defending freedom.” (True.)
- “…so hate is justified.” (Lie.)
That’s the venom that tastes like chocolate sweet for a moment, toxic over time. The mind loves certainty; the soul starves for connection. When certainty wins, compassion dies.
4. The Biological Trap
Neuroscience proves it: outrage lights up the brain’s reward centers. Every time we scroll through anger, dopamine drops like sugar on the tongue. The more we consume, the more addicted we become. Division is literally engineered into our neurochemistry.
But here’s the miracle: love rewires the brain too. Gratitude, prayer, forgiveness, and empathy strengthen the same circuits that division weakens. Heaven built a counter-algorithm inside us.
5. When Faith Becomes a Flag
Many movements that begin with purity of purpose morph into tribes of pride. We start defending doctrines more fiercely than people. Religion without love becomes politics in robes. Jesus never asked for brand loyalty; He asked for fruit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, self-control. The more we embody those, the less territory division can claim.
6. The Media Mirage
Turn on any screen and you’ll see the same pattern: conflict framed as identity.
- If you’re not with us, you’re against us.
- If you question it, you’re canceled.
- If you forgive, you’re weak.
Sound Familiar?
These are not headlines; they’re “hexes words” designed to hypnotize. But no outlet can manipulate a mind anchored in peace. Stillness is rebellion. Discernment is warfare.
7. The Heart of the Matter
In prayer one morning, I heard it clearly: “You can’t reach Me without becoming love.”
That sentence burned through every opinion I held. It reminded me that love isn’t passive tolerance, it’s active restoration. You can’t embody love while secretly despising the people God longs to heal through you.
8. My One Part Lion and One Part Lamb Ethos Reminders
Both are faces of divine leadership.
- The Lion roars against deception, protecting the flock.
- The Lamb stays silent before accusers, radiating grace.
When separated, the Lion becomes rage and the Lamb becomes resignation.
When integrated, truth and tenderness move as one heartbeat. That’s how heaven governs. That’s how followers of Christ or anyone seeking higher consciousness must live if they want to heal division rather than replicate it.
9. The Practical Path Back to Wholeness
A. Fast From Outrage
Take seven days off inflammatory media. Notice how your peace returns when you stop feeding the machine.
B. Re-train Your Attention
Read something uplifting before bed instead of doom-scrolling. Feed your spirit before your phone.
C. Remember Humanity
Look people in the eye again. Listen. Laugh. Hug. Human contact breaks digital hypnosis.
D. Ask Better Questions
When someone disagrees, try: “Help me understand what shaped your view.” Curiosity is love in motion.
E. Stay Rooted in Presence
Prayer, silence, nature whatever brings you back to awareness of God within and around you keeps you untouchable by manipulation.
10. A Word to the Warriors
Some will read this and call it naïve. But love is not weak; it’s warfare of the highest order. It takes more strength to forgive than to fight, more courage to listen than to shout, and more faith to believe unity is possible when everything screams otherwise.
Real warriors win without wounds because they fight with light.
11. A Word to the Wounded
Maybe you’ve been betrayed, silenced, or shamed by the very institutions claiming to represent truth. You’re not crazy; you’re just seeing the cracks. Don’t let bitterness recruit you. Pain can make you prophetic if you keep your heart clean. Stay tender enough to love and strong enough to discern.
12. Reclaiming the Middle
The middle isn’t lukewarm, it’s sacred ground. It’s where bridges are built, where ideas evolve, and where God often meets humanity. Extremes generate heat; love generates light. Choose light.
13. Living as Embodied Love
To embody love is to become the antidote to division:
- Speak truth without contempt.
- Lead boldly without ego.
- Correct without condemning.
- Protect without dehumanizing.
“The world doesn’t need louder opinions; it needs deeper presence.” – Stephen Scoggins Every time one person chooses love over fear, an unseen system loses power.
14. A Closing Prayer
Father, teach us to see through the fog of manipulation. Expose every counterfeit that parades as truth. Make us quick to listen, slow to speak, and impossible to offend. Form in us the courage of the Lion and the humility of the Lamb.
May our lives become sermons of peace in an age addicted to conflict.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
15. Final Word
Division only wins when we forget who we are. We were never designed to be pawns in someone else’s narrative. We are image-bearers of a Creator whose love is the most subversive force on earth. The antidote isn’t a louder argument; it’s living proof. Let’s be that proof.
Much Love & Light, God bless
Stephen
