From Morning with Tozer devotional: Satans Stratagem It is amazing that Satans wiliest stratagem against Christians believers is to use our virtues against us! Perhaps it is more amazing that he often does this with great success. By means of temptation to sin, he strikes at our personal lives; by working through our virtues, he gets at the whole community of believers and unfits it for its own defense. To capture a city an enemy must first weaken or destroy its resistance. The Church will never fail as long as she resists. This the devil knows; consequently he uses any stratagem to neutralize her resistance. Satan first creates a maudlin, inaccurate concept of Christ as soft, smiling and tolerant. He reminds us that Christ, as a lamb brought to slaughter, opened not His mouth--and suggests that we do likewise. Then if we notice his foot in the door and rise to oppose him, he appeals to our desire to be Christ-like. Love everybody and all will be well, he urges. The Shepard, taken in by this sweet talk, is afraid to use his club, and the wolf gets the sheep! Our prayer should be: Lord, I pray that You will help my Church resist any tactic used by Satan designed to weaken or dilute the testimony of the church in our community. We want to lift up your name.. Amen!
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:29:42 +0000
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