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Satan’s Devices
“For to this end also did I write … Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of
his devices” (2 Corinthians 2:9, 11).
It doesn’t take much thought to figure out that Satan uses more than one trick to try and catch us in his trap. Each of us has different weaknesses which the devil well knows and will take advantage of. Some have a real weakness in music; for others it may be sports; for some it may be laziness; still others are too driven; and on and on the list goes. Satan has used the same things more than once to get me to walk a path that is not according to Scripture. He usually attacks without warning, often when things are “going well” (or at least seem to be). And he doesn’t quit after his first success or failure, but rather he tries again and again to make us stumble. That’s why we are warned, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). WATCH OUT!! We are not ignorant of his devices.
Thankfully we have a great power at our disposal! “Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
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