The on-going fight to decide how Britain leaves the European Union does not get any easier as the British Prime Minister Theresa May and her Cabinet try their best at negotiating with their European counterparts.
However, following the recent troubles experienced by Mrs May, at the recent Conservative Party Conference, it was thought things could not get any worse. That was until the Chancellor Philip Hammond gave a recent interview that got people talking. His misuse of the reference to EU colleagues as the ‘Enemy’, caused listeners wondering what he was thinking, despite his immediate correction to the alternative word ‘opponents’.
Hammond said, in an interview with Sky News: “My message is this: I understand that passions are high and I understand that people have very strong views about this but we’re all going to the same place. We all have the same agenda.
“The enemy, the opponents, are out there. They’re on the other side of the negotiating table. Those are the people we have to negotiate with, negotiate hard to get the very best deal for Britain.”
While Hammonds reference to EU colleagues was, in his own words, a poor choice of words, it is essential for us to know who our real enemy is.
Winston Churchill once said,
‘You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.’
St Paul in his writings to the church in Ephesus said: For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12.
May we spend time both identifying and defeating our mutual Enemy to the glory of God.
