News Flash: satan is alive. I’d say “and well”, but he isn’t well. He’s sick. In case you haven’t figured it out by now, he hates us. He hates everything about us. Our bodies, our minds, our talents, our happiness, our relationships — you name it, he hates it. His soul purpose in life is to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). It really doesn’t matter to him how he does it just so it gets done.
A story suddenly comes to me. When I was in high school I got a frantic phone call from one of my classmates. We weren’t real close, but I did know her and her sister as they were neighbors to family friends of ours at that time. The girl’s name was Angel. Oddly enough, she was practicing white witchcraft. I’m just putting this out there: witchcraft is witchcraft is witchcraft. No matter how we slice that cake, witchcraft is satanic. Period. No matter how well a pig is dressed, it’s still a pig.
And that’s why Angel called. She bought the white pill lie. She was practicing evil but she was using it for “good”, or so she thought, so everything was okay. Only it wasn’t okay. Things were beginning to go a little freakish in her world and she was getting scared. I don’t remember the details. What I do remember is that satan was beginning to expose himself to her in ways that had her running scared. The payment exacted from her for her practice of witchcraft was more than she bargained for. With myself and Mum’s help, she was educated, advised, and delivered.
We have choices. Sometimes we make bad or uninformed ones like Angel did when choosing to practice witchcraft. But then, like Angel, we can change directions and make good choices like choosing Jesus.
A “church” girl argued that fact with me this summer. She said when our number’s up, we’re gone no matter what and there’s nothing we can do about it. Our choices don’t have an affect on our demise.
It had to be God because it would have taken me too long to come up with this on my own. I told her: “What about drinking and driving? Say a 20 something makes the poor choice to drink and drive and maybe kills themselves or someone else. God isn’t in that. A bad choice was made and there were consequences. Drinking and driving shortens some people’s lives. That’s not God’s fault.”
She was quiet. The arguing ceased. I think the rebuttal took a little chip off of the chip on her shoulder. We can’t blame everything on God. We do have a part to play in some of what happens in our lives, probably a bigger part than most of us would admit. That’s one of the takeaways I hope you receive from this post.
The second: Angel called me. I didn’t always feel like I portrayed Jesus Christ properly in school . . . sometimes I still don’t. But when that girl needed someone genuine, guess who she called? Uh-huh, me. Someone out there today needs to hear the words of a prophet that have stuck with me: You are doing better than you think you are.
Go into life with eyes wide open. Ask Holy Spirit to advise and reveal. satan is roaming about seeking whom he may devour. Let us not be prey for him. Take careful attention of habits, practices, and thoughts. Beware of what lurks in the mind! We have a very, very real enemy. Let us not forget, we also have a very, very real Savior/Deliverer.
Join me today in being observant and vigilant. Keep choosing the only Hope this world has: choose Jesus. And let’s continue to choose to pray, praise, and keep the faith.
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