Distractions

You know, it's possible that Satan sends trouble our way in order to distract us. Distraction is one of Satan's best pieces of ammunition to use on God's people.

When it appears that something catastrophic is going on in your life, don't get caught up in the mess of it all. Look to God and ask Him what Satan is trying to keep you away from. Ask God to make His will for you more clear so that Satan's darts in your life will bounce right back to him. If you are wearing the shield of faith, Satan's darts can't penetrate. They only dent the shield up.

Sometimes, Christians forget to put on the full armor of God everyday. Sometimes we think we only have time to pick up a few of the pieces of armor before running out the door and into the line of fire. This is not smart nor is it helpful to anyone. I suppose thinking we are too busy to put all of the armor on each day is a distraction.......from Satan.


I was just reflecting on all of this today while in the shower. (The shower and the car are my best spiritual places to go. God can get pretty chatty with me when I am in those places....haha! You all reap the benefits of our conversations too. It's just too good to keep quiet about.)

Anyway, I was thinking about something terrible going on in my family's life at the moment. It's something that's been going on over an extended period of time and today at 9:00am things are at quite a climax. I began wondering (God talking to me here) if all this mess is just a distraction from Satan to get our attention off of the greater picture. When putting things in perspective and knowing who to blame and who not to blame, things become so much clearer. You began to see things through spiritual glasses. You see that Satan is to blame and God is not. You see that Satan is to blame and certain family members are not (at least not directly).

We all make choices. We choose to do things Satan's way or we choose to do things God's way. We often confuse things and think that doing things our own way is simply doing things our own way. In reality, doing things our own way is doing them Satan's way. This is because anything that is not God's is Satan's. Plain and simple. If we choose Satan's way of doing something, then we are definately to blame. "The devil made me do it" is nonsense unless of course you are possessed by Satan himself and he actually is making you do something against your will. Satan deceives you. He tricks you and lies to you. It's through this that we get ourselves into trouble. Simply because we believe him. Why we believe him, I havn't the slightest idea, but we always fall for the same old lies over and over again, don't we? You would think that after the fall of man in the garden of Eden that mankind would learn from their mistakes, but no. We just can't help ourselves. Humanity lives for the present....the here and now.....whatever seems right at the time, we do it. It's high time, as Christians, that we start living everyday like it's our last and like Jesus is coming to take us home in the next 5 minutes. Learn to train yourself to say NO! to Satan all day, everyday. Satan has no peace for us. Satan has no salvation for us. The only reason Satan is interested in people is to get back at God and hurt Him. Satan does not love us. He only uses us to benefit himself. That is no friend of mine!

Come to Jesus and ignore the lies and distractions!