Thursday, October 25, 2007

Weak

The enemy will try to curse ANYTHING that God tries to prosper. That's just the nature of the game. Satan has been succeeding at this since the fall of man. The thing that really gets me though, is that the attacks are always the same. Nothing new . . . ever. Every attempt Satan makes at robbing you of being in close contact with God has been used by him a million times. No, that's an understatement. It very well could be hundreds of billions. There will never be anything new in his arsenal to use against you. God has restricted the devil to what you already experience of him in most cases. He lies. But he also tells the truth. He accuses you, usually of something you are indeed guilty of. This makes it all the more effective. At times, you ARE the flake he called you. You ARE a hypocrite. You ARE selfish. He points out the truth, but only in shards, and only when it has a chance of effecting you. He doesn't want you to answer his charges with scripture, he'd rather you dwell on what he tells you because, "Hey, it is true". He doesn't want you to tell him that The Word already told you that you weren't good enough and that you're glad you're not required to be. He prefers it when you don't remind him that you are saved by grace and not by works; whatever he says to knock you back can be answered by Truth. His best stuff is focused on dividing and conquering. He wants to separate you from God and what God desires to share with you. He lusts to get you alone and defenseless, that he might influence you to hopelessness. He is bitter that you, a weak, insignificant being, are able to share a relationship with God, and that he, a far more powerful being, cannot. He is bitter that God receives joy from you having a relationship with Him. This relationship makes Satan sick. His attacks are weak and reek of desperation. He has his limited set of attacks to draw on, and he hopes with all his might that you don't discover how weak and pathetic his attempts are. Because the moment you do realize that, he has no chance. For every lie he tells, The Bible presents a multitude of truths that individually are enough to overcome that lie. God is all about "more than enough". It's His nature. It's the enemy's nature to retreat in fear when you follow the simplistic biblical approach. It works every time. Stop making the devil out to be something he isn't. He relies on you to crumble under his tired routine. He needs you to participate in his ruse or he has nothing. He does have one thing; the weak and tired routine with absolutely nothing capable of being effective against you unless you choose to make it so by your acceptance and inaction.

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