Post by Murph on Feb 23, 2024 8:00:00 GMT -6
The Surest Way to Resist the Devil
C.S. Lewis once wrote, “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.”
Lewis’ point is that the Christian must walk the fine line between being absolutely certain that Satan is a real being, and being so fixated on Satan that our eyes cease to be fixed on Jesus. If we err in the first regard, then we will never be ready and armored up when the true attacks of the enemy comes. If we err in the second regard then we will spend so much of our time hunting for the work of the devil that we fail to embrace the work of God.
We have a description of that fine line laid out for us in James 4 in which James fully embraces the Christian responsibility to be engaged in fighting the devil’s work all while keeping his eyes focused on God:
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7).
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