Why the tension among believers

A verse in the letter of John comes to my remembrance as I reflect on the state at which we as believers (meaning Christian) might find ourselves in, especially when it comes to intra/inter-church relationships. Let me just quote it from memory “but if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” ( 1Joh1:7 italics mine). It is my absolute conviction that the letter that John writes, he writes to people who profess to be followers of Christ and are in a church setting. It is very interesting to observe that the apostle that had revealed for him that which would happen in the last days, has very little to say about our “so -called”, (at least in Swedish setting), I would even say, man made substitute for the true fire of God. What he concentrates on, in at least the first letter that he writes is a powerful, heart piercing, radical call to live the message that we preach, namely walking in light just as God is light and walking in Love just as God is Love.

John’s definition of fellowship is not scratching each other’s backs and polishing one another’s spiritual gifts and living in Quasiglory-land, but a heaven on earth, open, prestige less, pride less, honest, upfront relationship with one another in the Love of God. I believe that we are so uptight and have our masks and guards up so much that we deceive ourselves by hiding behind the unseen bars of pride and prestige that is destroying us as individuals and eating us up from inside.
It is high time that we stop pretending to be what we are not and start living out who we are in Christ Jesus. We in Christ are in the light, and no darkness can quench the light that we are in. Let us therefore draw strength and courage from the light that we are in and live out in our everyday relationships with our friends especially in the churches that we are part of. Let us break down the wall of insecurity, the fortress of inferiority, the fear of being talked about, the need to receive spiritual medals from mere men and allow the precious, priceless, incomparable, Love of our Almighty God through Jesus Christ enable us to walk and live in light towards one another.

A church whose members walk in light towards one another, believing and cheering the God that is on inside of each other, clearly and willingly submitting and believing in the leadership of the God appointed men and women in the government of the church, will cause a mighty God –ordained breakthrough not only in the local outreach of the church but also on a global level.

Having had this verse put to my remembrance and the above illumination that the Holy Spirit encouraged me with, makes me really wonder “why the tension among believers”. Is it really God ordained or is it a demonic attack from the very pit of hell to steal, kill and destroy the family of God, the only hope for a lost and dying world, which we are unaware of?