Over the last few weeks my beautuful wife and I have had a continuing conversation about something that we cant seem to fully understand.
Why does life seem like a neverending series of crises for some people, and a walk in a rose filled park for others?
It can be said that the people walking through the rose filled park are just hiding the truth, or avoiding the truth. It can also be said that the people living through crisis after crisis are just making problems out of what should be minor bumps in life’s road. But overall doesn’t it seem that some have it easy and some are getting hammered by life?
After more than a few conversations about this here’s a synopsis of what Helen and I have been thinking.
Satan has a goal. His mission is to keep each and every one of us from finding God. He works 24/7 finding obsticles he can place between us and God. And if he can find something that works he will keep using it…forever. The worst news of all is that he is good at what he does. He is relentless. He will continue to attack until his mission is complete.
So the simplified question is why do some people get attacked more than others. It seems the easy answer is that some of us are so close to God that Satan has more difficulty getting to us. Some people have such a close relationship with God that whatever Satan tries fails. Well…that sounds nice, and I am sure that has some merit, but Helen and I have been rolling around a different idea.
As I said before Satan is smart. He knows what will get to us, and will not hesitate to use anything he can find. Given that fact wouldn’t it make sense that Satan knows which of us are more dangerous to him? Wouldn’t it make sense that Satan knows who he needs to pay more attention to? Who are the “hard-cases” and who are the “push-overs”.
Does it make sense that if God has blessed someone with a gift that will lead many people to find the truth, that Satan would focus more on them in an effort to eliminate this persons influence on the world? Would Satan spend more effort on some people and less on others?
As God tells us in James 1:2 “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials” If we are to consider it joy when Satan attacks us maybe Satans attacks are an indication we are actually doing something right. If Satan never spends any time trying to derail our life maybe our life isnt causing him any concern. Maybe our life is not worthy of Satan’s attention. If Satan looks us over and decides that we are not a th
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Entirely possible. It’s also possible that the more we turn to God in the face of those trials, Satan may eventually back down. As Beth Moore puts it, the last thing the enemy wants to do is encourage us to praise God. So as long as what he’s doing is working, and destroying us, separating us from God, he’ll keep at it. Once he sees that it’s having the opposite effect, he may well leave us alone.
God limits the power of the enemy in the lives of His children so if we are under His care and filled with the Spirit, the attacks have to go through Him – perhaps to build us and strengthen us, to prepare us for the ultimate battle, or perhaps to encourage us to break our ties with the material, things that we have placed our security and our hearts in rather than depending on God.
Truth is, I don’t think anyone has the answers, and there are probably as many answers as there are individual situations. And the answers may well be simply a mixture of all the things mentioned and perhaps some more that no one ever thought of within our limited earthly means to comprehend. But one thing is true, and sure: no matter what happens to us on this earth, no matter what trials we may bear, it is our choice- and a better choice – to remind ourselves of the sovereignty of God and to trust our lives, souls, selves, and all that means anything to us, to His care. The important thing, after all, is not on this earth – but everlasting beyond it.
Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I almost totally agree. It seems like when we are doing our best, Satan is right behind us, or ahead of us, making things that hinder us looks soooooo beautiful to us — because remember he was the most beloved angel of all, if I’m not mistaken, the lead musician, the angelic locks (pun), everything God had hoped for in his assembly, then he (Satan) became a jealous one and fell away from God, thinking he was better than the One who created him.
So this jealous one, Satan, gets probably more and more envious of those who are on the right path with God, who seek His salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ, that he (Satan) is infuriated that someone could actually love Him more than anything else in the world, so obviously, he would toil around and try to get us to turn away, in whatever little way he can.
It makes perfect sense that he’d try so hard to push us away from what God intended for us, especially those who arouse the jealousy ingrained in his heart, if he has one…which I doubt.