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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

I Believe In Satan

I believe in Satan.  Not the Flip Wilson style “the devil made me do it” Satan, but the real one.  Not the cute harmless little guy with the horns and the pitchfork in the red suit either.  I’m talking about the one who whispers lies.  The one who considers “self” the center of the universe, and “others” and “things” just a means to our own pleasure.  I believe in the devil who is shut out of heaven, and because of that desires to take as many others with him as he can.  Misery loves company, and I believe the devil is miserable.

We call him by different names these days and don’t even realize it.  I’ve encountered reports documenting that people contact more spiritual mediums and channelers than professional counselors for advice.  I find that pretty scary to be perfectly honest.  I’ve seen people in my own life who have gone down that path.  Many are duped by clever charlatans, but I believe some become ensnared by Satan himself in the person of these modern day demons who simply go by a different name.

The Bible doesn’t spend a huge amount of time fleshing out the devil’s character or the reasons for his actions.  We are told he did battle with God for control and he and one-third of the angels of heaven fell from heaven that day.  We are told he walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, but actually more time is spent on the nature of God and our relationship with him.  After all, the whole book is just one long love letter to us to get us to straighten up and fly right and to have that relationship with God that He longs for.  But that “Dark Knight” has his reasons and his methods for destruction.  Satan’s lusts, negative thoughts, accusations, self-doubts, are all inserted into a listening mind.  And yet he has no power if we reject those lies and live in the Truth that God loves us, and our armor against Satan is the sanctification given us by God through Christ’s death on the cross.  Satan’s goal is to make us focus on ourselves, the material and the present.  We are given the chance by God to focus on the eternal, the spiritual and service to others.

Satan is persistent, I’ve got to give him credit for that.  He even badgered Christ Himself in the wilderness and offered Him all the material self-aggrandizing things he could think of.  If he is bold enough to attack Jesus, the we surely have a daily need to put on protection from his onslaught.  Reject Satan right now, out loud in Christ’s name so you hear it and he hears it.  Continue that fight and immerse yourself in the light of God’s word.  Satan has no power over you.  You are free.  Accept no cheap imitations of life now...or in the hereafter.

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