I don't know when it happened but I started walking SLIGHTLY un-straight, which in the longer run, would have hindered me. AGAIN. I'm not saying this is the first time this has happened all summer and certainly not the first time in my lifetime. AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!
And it always begins small, with like half an inch, and most times, it's not obvious. The Enemy, in fact, approaches you like he's good, like he's your friend. If we're not trying to be aware, we feel SO far from God before we scramble about to figure out what happened! We spend 80% of the time falling away from God thinking we're still white when we're actually black, because we're so clueless and confused. The Enemy is so greedy and deceitful. Seriously, give the sore loser one inch and He'll take 100 feet from you.
I really feel like a fat blind sheep many many times rolling along in this thing we call "faith journey"... SO thankful our Shepherd knows what kind of crazyness He's got in His hands. His staff really IS comforting me right now (Psalm 23 hollaaa). I'm just imagining Him kung-fu moving away the bears and wolves hahahaha.
I can't do this alone, heck no. Not even for a day.
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I'm so (hysterically?) relieved right now knowing that God is with me and watching me and for me. Whew. GOD CAUGHT THE ENEMY'S TRICKS BEFORE THEY COULD REAP ANYYYY CONSEQUENCES THIS TIME. AHAHHAHA. what a sucka. God's got me!
Thank you God T_T taking little steps...out and around the Enemy's snares... May You always be my guide and counsel. Life truly is a learning process- am I FINALLY learning? A little at least? :D?
Bahhhhhh?
"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings." 1 Peter 5:8-9
"For we must never forget what is the most repellent and inexplicable trait in our Enemy: He really loves the hairless bipeds He has created and always gives back to them with His right hand what He has taken away with His left."
ReplyDelete"But always and by all methods the Enemy's aim will be to get the patient's mind off such questions, and yours will be to fix it on them. Even of his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased."
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From my most recent chapter of Screwtape. Praise the Lord (: