The Enemy

The Devil comes to rob, steal and destroy. The devil does not want us to find the joy of the Lord. The devil will do what ever it takes to steal every bit of what God has given us. The enemy will use anything he can use to get us feeling destroyed, but God has given us the truth to live by. When we start doing what God calls us to do, the enemy will try other measures and we need to be aware of him.

I think it is easy to think that the enemy will only use bad people, but the enemy uses situations. He wants to take us off our guard, he will use it to steal our hope to seeing what God wants from us. This is exactly why God says to give thanks in every circumstance, in everything give thanks. By giving thanks we are no longer focused on what the enemy wants to steal, we are focused on what God wants to use the situation for. Did that make sense?

The enemy wants us to focus on self, but God wants us to focus on Him. Do you wonder why all the new craze is focusing on self, self pictures, self image, self etc... That is the enemy taking our eyes off of God and focusing it on the only thing that the enemy wants us to focus on is self. The culture is self absorbed, focusing on what is right for me, instead of saying do unto others as you would have done unto you. That is the call of Jesus, but it is easy to get caught up in the self cycle, but the Bible is very clear that life CAN NOT be about self, but about God.

When we are focused on self, we are self centered and only care about what makes me happy, what makes me feel good, we blame everyone else for our issues, because we can't look at ourselves. God calls us to stop and be different then the world. A self centered person is not worried about what God thinks, because they can only say what matters to them, that is a sin, that is saying that they are more important than God, they are making their self focus an idol and what does God say about idols? What is idolatry? It is a SIN. Why is it a sin? Because it takes our eyes off of God and puts it on other things.

The enemy wants to destroy everything, marriage, family, friends, church, work and there is no limit he will do to do what he is purposed to do. Isn't it time to stand against the enemy? Isn't it time for a change? It has to be all about God, God at the center, God first, God has to be more important than self.

When we are focused on self, the enemy will use that as a tool to destroy not only me, but others in the path. When we give him a foothold in our lives, we open up the gates to what he will do. Isn't it time to close the door on the devil and start putting God first in everything? I mean EVERYTHING!!!