When two people have opposite or conflicting views or feelings, adversary forces are at work, which can produce external conflict. However, when conflicting feelings are exhibited in one individual, this is considered internal conflict or psychological struggle.
In a literary or dramatic character, struggle within the mind creates a plot or uncertainty to be resolved. A character must have some conflict to overcome, whether being internal or external. This helps to engage the storyline or narrative.
In the real world, internal conflict is considered to be a disorder, thereby making facing difficulties or opposition, a struggle at best. People engage in fights, clashes, or skirmishes, in an attempt to stand their ground while contending with rival forces. It makes no difference where conflicts arise, the reactions to them are the same: to compete in a situation for influence or power.
When struggle rises up in marriage, and one or both individuals are dealing with internal conflict, there is a more passionate effort to break free of control or restriction, resulting in external confrontation. Some marriages are an ongoing disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles. It is akin to carrying a heavy load uphill for a long distance. The internal infighting within the marriage is magnified based on the internal struggles that exist in each person fighting for their share of control.
As with characters in a movie plot, the resolution is found within understanding our own internal conflict. In real life drama, each character must not sustained the suspense to make their role in the drama more compelling. Not knowing how to distinguish between real life and cinema drama can lead to the development of a philosophy of internal inconsistencies. Choosing between a single explanation for everything or a theory of two opposing concepts, or dualism. The two do not exclude but supplement each other, forming a unity of extraordinary cunning. This can lead to uncontrolled faultfinding, a sort of disease symptom of a healthy person. Whatever the issues was, the conflict in the marriage remains.
When it comes to good and evil, our souls are profoundly conscious of an internal conflict. There is an antagonist power in the darkness of evil, such as the bewilderment of being in the darkness of night. Evil is the wellspring of disorder.
Light is the medium between truth and knowledge, revealing the comprehensible aspects of nature. In the world, there are two opposite forms, light and darkness, both equally real. Following God as the wellspring of our thinking, His light offers the conception of harmony and abolishes struggle.
Ephesians 6:12
12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Genesis 1:18
18 “And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.”
Genesis 3:16
16 “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
Psalm 80:6
6 “Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.”
Proverbs 10:12
12 “Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.”
Proverbs 15:18
18 “A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife”
Proverbs 20:3
3 “It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.”
Proverbs 29:22
22 “An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.”
Isaiah 58:4
4 “Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.”
2 Corinthians 4:6
6 “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
Daniel 5:11
11 “There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;”
Acts 26:18
18 “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.”
Deuteronomy 24:1
24 “When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.”
Isaiah 50:1
50 “Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.”
Proverbs 16:22
22 “Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.”