Why #6

Why Should I Allow Satan Control?

     Decades ago a comedian known as Flip Wilson use to cause people to roar with laughter as he excused his weird behavior by saying, "The Devil made me do it."   Sadly in real life a lot of Christ-Followers live defeated lives because they do not realize that the Devil cannot make a child of God do anything unless she or he allows it to be so.  John said it best when he proclaimed in 1 John 3:8, "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the Devil's work."  He went on to say, "Greater is He who is within me than he who is in the world." 1 John 4:4b.  James knew all this when he told us "Submit yourself to God, resist the Devil and he has to run from you." James 4:7. It's clear who really is in the driver's seat when it comes to standing up to that which is evil.

     The problem arises for Christ-followers when they believe Satan's lies: He cannot defeat you, but he can lie to you.  As Jesus said of him, "he is a liar and the father of all lies.  When he lies, he speaks his native language."  And if you believe the lie and not the truth, rather than being free, you are enslaved and will be defeated.  Just, as when slaves did not leave the plantation shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation was declared -- because they did not know what to believe  -- even so children of God, who don't know of the power they possess,  cannot overcome the enslavement from believing lies.  If you believe the Devil makes you do "it," you will live accordingly.  If he lies to you and convinces you he does not exist, he will blindside you.  Do you get what I am saying here?

     Cling to the truth of God's word.  THE reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the Devil's work.  Jesus must have certainly believed in the existence of evil personified.  The reason He came was to destroy the Devil's work.  So the real question needed to be ask is "Why should I let the Devil have control?" After all, Jesus destroyed his capabilities and all he has is the lie.

SoJourner

     

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