Beware the Lion
"What does (1 Peter 5:8) mean to you as a child of God? It says "Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."
Our enemy wants to destroy us from the inside out and what more effective way to do it than to invade our mind. And he has in this day every opportunity through our ever present electronic devices. Most of what we hear and see is not healthy for our mind. We have a lot of time to feed our mind with useless, mindless content which is making us even more mindless and useless. We are constantly connected while driving, working, sitting at home and much of the content we listen to and see is not designed to satisfy our soul but it makes us more dissatisfied. Instead of becoming more "sober and vigilant" we're becoming more checked out and more mentally fragile. Our enemy is trying to disconnect more and more of God's children from having real joy in the present moment. Many people are even too distracted to hold down a simple job, take care of their children, or even keep their home clean much less focus long enough on what really matters in life and that is a close relationship with our Lord Jesus. The devil want us to be stuck inside our head where our thoughts center around how other people or events have affected us like why a neighbor was a jerk to us, or how to handle our unpaid bills, or how unfair it is to us that someone we love died, or why we don't have more friends, etc. Whenever we're stuck inside our head we usually don't think about others and how tragic life events affect them. Our Enemy is attacking each day and marriages are being destroyed, relationships ruptured, and children are attempting suicide, addiction, increased crime, and every imaginable form of wasting a God-given life. Saints, God makes it clear that in this life we can experience the "fullness of joy" as He promises in His Word in (Psalm 16:11) "Thou wilt show me the path of life: in Thy Presence is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." May that be our desire and focus each day."
Our enemy wants to destroy us from the inside out and what more effective way to do it than to invade our mind. And he has in this day every opportunity through our ever present electronic devices. Most of what we hear and see is not healthy for our mind. We have a lot of time to feed our mind with useless, mindless content which is making us even more mindless and useless. We are constantly connected while driving, working, sitting at home and much of the content we listen to and see is not designed to satisfy our soul but it makes us more dissatisfied. Instead of becoming more "sober and vigilant" we're becoming more checked out and more mentally fragile. Our enemy is trying to disconnect more and more of God's children from having real joy in the present moment. Many people are even too distracted to hold down a simple job, take care of their children, or even keep their home clean much less focus long enough on what really matters in life and that is a close relationship with our Lord Jesus. The devil want us to be stuck inside our head where our thoughts center around how other people or events have affected us like why a neighbor was a jerk to us, or how to handle our unpaid bills, or how unfair it is to us that someone we love died, or why we don't have more friends, etc. Whenever we're stuck inside our head we usually don't think about others and how tragic life events affect them. Our Enemy is attacking each day and marriages are being destroyed, relationships ruptured, and children are attempting suicide, addiction, increased crime, and every imaginable form of wasting a God-given life. Saints, God makes it clear that in this life we can experience the "fullness of joy" as He promises in His Word in (Psalm 16:11) "Thou wilt show me the path of life: in Thy Presence is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." May that be our desire and focus each day."
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