You were aware that you have an enemy, yes? I don’t care how nice you are, you have an enemy who is actively involved and will use whatever devise is effective in order to see you destroyed. Actually if you are ‘nice’ you probably are a target. Your enemy doesn’t like you, never has and never will. To be frank – he hates you. To be unaware of his desire is to court disaster.
Your enemy goes by a number of names: Satan, the deceiver, the thief, lucifer, the devourer, etc. And yes, he does exist. And yes, he is as vile as scripture portrays him. John 10:10 says: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” Steal, kill, destroy are violent attempts to make who we are totally ineffective. Nothing would please him more than to incapacitate us so that our testimony becomes of no report. That’s why we need to be on our guard so that we aren’t blindsided or succumb to his temptations.
I would suggest that part of the problem we face is that our enemy never plays ‘fair’ and we aren’t always wise to his machinations. One of the advantages we have though is that he isn’t particularly creative and will use previous used tactics that worked. As a result, if we are more conscious of our own Achilles heels we have a greater chance to head off disasters.
Never become lulled into the thinking that Satan is just a weird cartoon figure with no power. And never think that he isn’t planning for your destruction. Your testimony is powerful and he doesn’t want it producing good fruit. As powerful as Satan is, we have One who has gone before us who will see him under His foot. We really are… more than conquerors.
