"Dogged If I Know,"

It is a way of saying that you don't understand
something, that it's confusing to you, or isn't

clear, and so, you just don't know.  Ever find
yourself in a situation which seems like it
ought to go one way, yet goes another? 

Ever face a foe that you aren't exactly sure
how they are the enemy, they just present
themselves as an enemy, they aren't clear
cut about it, they are strangely and mysteriously
cloaked about how they do what they do?
That enemy leaves you feeling like you
want to fight but aren't sure where the fight
is at, dogged if you know?

When this happens what do you do?  May
I be so bold as to suggest that you bring
the enemy out, and that when you go back
and read the incident in the desert, you 
now have eyes which see that Jesus, far
from being invaded upon, had waited
for 40 days to bring his true enemy out.

Would you also indulge me the saying that
enough is enough- there are and should be
limits to what you allow as an enemy.  When
you are in this war with a strange enemy you
have to clarify where the fight is going to
take place at- but also you have to clarify
what the fight will be about.  So sometimes
those who you believe are true to you, well,
they turn out to be just as false as false can
be.  What do you do when that enemy
emerges- and you find yourself working
in and working with self righteous hypocrites?

Jesus prayed about this, it seems to me, He
took long times with His and our father in
heaven, to sort through the myriad of things
that He might have been distracted to fight
against, but they weren't the real enemy- yet
another thing about the self righteous- they
rarely do the sort of loving things Christ
followers do- it's why their churches are
dwindling in membership, and their religion
is false, James warned about this, we are
seeing it, and living through it.