Are we acting like children of God or children of the serpent.

The difference between the serpent children and the mother children. Serpents have no alliances. They do not travel in families. They concern themselves with the spoil for the consumption of their own bodies, not sharing.
I have never heard of a snake biting off a piece of something and giving it to his friend snake. It won't happen. Cutting things up and sharing,dividing among groups happens when we share.
The children of the women have an alliance; a cause that is bigger than self. First, they learn to concern themselves about mother and what mother has taught them. Next, they have family loyalties. Church and community loyalties, world concerns, bring up the rear. They are part of a team. What hurts the whole(in some way)they are concerned about.
When they pray, there are priorities and order to their concerns. God is weaving the new heaven and the new earth with the children of the women whose God is the Lord. When they are in their place there is consistency. When they are absent, there are holes. God has woven the holes into the pattern of the scheme of things, in His amazing grace. But, what we leave to our children, is the mass of discernable patterns of God's dealings, or the tangled web of undescernable lines to be combed out. Do we give them the equipment to untangle what we have tangled? Do we give them the comb to untangle what we have left untended?
As those beautiful spirograph patterns, the couple is the two circles in the hands of the angels, making family patterns, growing into community patterns, into country patterns , and ultimately, into world patterns.All of this is under God's eternal patterning. Each blessed interaction of the couple, either condenses the pattern or loosens its grip. We can stop the pattern at any point, refusing to dance together in the spirograph pattern, but we have to start again somewhere. We will get to that point in the pattern somewhere else along the struggle, if we live. These are the consistent echoes of God's mercy.
Obeying God, when he said, be fruitful, multiply. Rarely do people remind us that God said that. Don't be fruitful, don't multiply, it only gives us more mouths to feed, says the serpent. Obeying our first father Adam,who said to his wife "Mother life". "Don't mother life", says the world and the flesh and the devil. It will take all of your mind and your body and your strength.
The serpent sits under the birthing table seeking to eat your best conceptions. God gives us spiritual eyes to see enemies at each birth. It is more and more clear, until it is nearly a consuming passion to protect your children from that serpent. Mothering life and protecting your children from death is a passion, until God shows us the purposes for which we are here upon the earth. Building a team for God. A bunch of new spirograph patterns for the angels to adorn the sky with, for the glory of God.