New Life Resolution: Part 2
If you didn’t read the last blog New Life Resolution, please go back and read it. It asks “what stops you from stepping in a new direction?” Since this is still the beginning of the New Year, I’m interested in knowing, did you start stepping in a new direction? If not, why not? Or, did you start stepping yet began having difficulty? This blog provides insight into why you might be struggling to achieve your goals.
Excerpts from Battle Cry Good vs. Evil
Chapter 3: Satan, the Enemy
Job 1:6–7 (NLT) says, “One day the members of the heavenly court came to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them. ‘Where have you come from?’ the LORD asked Satan. Satan answered the LORD, ‘I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.’” Isn’t it interesting, Satan would be allowed to come before the Lord with the members of the heavenly court? Then, he uses the opportunity to tell the Lord he has been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.
The continued existence of Satan and evil is evident by what we experience in our personal lives, by what we observe in the lives of those closest to us, and by what we witness going on all over the world. One of our biggest mistakes is we marginalize Satan by lightheartedly visualizing this little figure with a pitch fork and a tail. This depiction is false. There’s nothing at all lighthearted about Satan. He’s foul, cruel, and heartless. His spiritual presence is so massive he can patrol the earth and watch everything that’s going on. With this kind of presence, is there any wonder why he is successful at spiritually attacking and keeping us separated from God? God is love and Satan is hate. Satan’s hate is revealed in his relentless campaign of evil and darkness. He hates that we have the opportunity to be in a loving relationship with God, and he wants us to miss it. He wants us to fail, and fail miserably. He wants to foster hate within each one of us. He wants us to hate ourselves and he wants us to hate one another.
Author’s comments: These chapter excerpts may seem to be a lot of gloom and doom when it comes to Satan and how he has his way with us. But don’t be discouraged. Satan never has the last word because God is the Word. God’s Word says, no matter what you’ve done, no matter how you’re labeled, you are who God says you are. As a child of God, the Father is always there for you. He desperately wants to be a part of your life, every single day.
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