We are divided as the wheat and the tares at harvest time.

Jesus said to Peter: "Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail..."

So, if we really look to the truth ...Satan brought about the separation from God, and convinced a third to follow him.

There are things that Satan promotes, and there are other things ...things that God promotes.

If our nation is divided, it is not by race.  We fought a Civil War, and much was to be accomplished after that, which seemed to take way too long before results could be seen...yet, we have slowly improved in many areas as a nation.  Only Satan would have it that we would stir up old emotions that none of us were, nor few claim to be a part of.  

If our nation is divided, it is at the root of what God has created ...the people of our nation, and at the core of the family which He has created. If the marriage of the man and woman is cheapened ...and divorce is readily accepted; and if the union of man and woman, where children are conceived ...leads to commonplace acceptance of abortion ---that is what causes the destruction of a nation.  These are not innocent selective choices that cause no injury. And we see the harmful dissemination into all areas ---including education, entertainment, employment, economics, and politics.   

There is no peace with Satan doing the leading ...as he represents the most complete opposite of God, and peace on earth would never be with Satan.

So, the division already exists ...and if it is not really clear to us, we all still choose.

The choice has to be made ...because God promises us a peace, and the likes of Satan will not and cannot be there for peace to exist and be delivered.

Jesus delivers us to the peaceful side of that separation.

An old family discussion, before I was married and therefore deemed not qualified to speak on the subject, was that we should not put church ahead of family in importance.  I had said, that church attendance and activity should not equate with God, and that we should put God first ...because it does not lessen any family member by putting God first, but rather puts family in a higher, more loving position.  I was told I didn't know what I was talking about ...expressed to me in less kind words.  But, I think I understood that quote in Matthew 10. 

Love does not divide us, but in a way it does through truth, and it will when the loving promised peace comes ...yet, until then, the way we treat one another should continue to be in love, with differences put aside. 

Yet again, we are not to just want others to love us ...by our definition, of accepting all 'our' ways.  In truth, we must choose the way we are to go. And the pure truth does exist ...if we are compelled to embrace it, not dispute how to define it.  

God has already defined it ...in the Bible.  You can call me a lunatic too, if you feel validated by doing so.  But, I know the truth when I read it.