February 8
It is to one final destination that the enemy of our souls desires to bring the child of God. It is to one culminating point that all his mischief against us is directed. When he assaults our minds with doubt, it is with this end in his mind. When he assails our bodies with pain and disease, it is toward this end he points us.
Psalm 14:1 tells us straight out the precise intent of the mischief of the enemy against people of faith. All his raging against us is because he wants us to be among those who are in the category of fools, people this passage tells us say in their hearts, “…there is no God…”
Why does he care if we denounce the Lord God Most High? The passage goes on to tell us that then we will have become, “…corrupt in action and be revolting.”
The evil one knows that if he can bring us to the point of denying God, he can reduce us to the most base of attitudes and actions. If he can bring us to the point of turning our back on Jesus, we will be facing head-on into destruction!
It might be a destruction that we cannot even see, but its end will undo us. When the chief minion of hell has negated our faith, caused us to disbelieve the Holy One who inhabits eternity, he knows he has brought us to the point where no depravity is too hideous, no act too vile for us to perform, no word too profane for us to utter. It is then we have become his slave, chained to our sin—and lost
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