God's Math

When God wants to multiply, Satan wants to divide! 

When God wants to add, Satan wants to subtract!

When God wants whole people, Satan wants fractions!

We see it throughout the history of the early church.

In Acts 2:46-47 we read about the early believers: "They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved." (And we know on one day that was 3,000!)

God was multiplying their numbers -- adding every day!

But Satan brought division into the church to subtract from their ministry. Paul warns the Romans to be on the "watch for those who cause divisions and put obstacles" in their way.

And to those in Corinth, he urges "have no division," but be "perfectly united in mind and thought" (1 Corinthians 1:10).

And in our personal lives, God wants to give us more of His blessings. Satan wants us to take less.

Peter tell us to "make every effort to add to your faith, goodness, and to goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control, and to self-control perseverance, and to perseverance godliness, and to godliness, mutual affection, and to mutual affection love" (2 Peter 1:5).

God always wants to give us more. He wants us to be more. Satan wants to diminish us.

When God multiplies, Satan divides.

Wouldn't you rather be in God's math class?