Today, our preacher made a comment that really hit home to me. Our battle is not with people. Our battle is with the devil. I find it so easy to be mad at the person who hurts my husband or my family. But not very often do I truly sit and realize that the battle is not with that person. The battle is with the one who is using that person and his name is Satan.
I think a lot of our own personal issues with each other would be cleared up so quickly if we just took a step back before jumping to conclusions, and realized that people aren't the problem. It is the devil. Saying his name makes me cringe, but I so often let him trick me into thinking people are evil. How blinded we have become in not seeing his tricks.
Maybe, just maybe, we have allowed ourselves to be blinded so much by the "little" sins in our lives that we have forgotten that an itty bitty foothold gives the devil a whole playing field in our lives. That one compromise, one choice that didn't include Jesus, one slip of the tongue, one second glance at what we shouldn't be glancing at, or one stumble gives the devil an open door into those tiny places in our hearts.
So, the next time we find ourselves irritated at our neighbor, angry at a family member, frustrated with our children or spouse, or just plain ole mad, remember, the fight isn't with the other person. It is with the devil himself!
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