Resisting the Devil, Part 2 (TMF:2119)

Thursday, June 22, 2023
Peace to Live By: Resisting the Devil, Part 2 (TMF:2119) - Daniel Litton
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       When we are are really resisting, we know that his ways won’t work for us. We have knowledge. We have studied the Word of God and know how God says to live. Having become familiar with what God says, we are able to live in a way that is pleasing to him. This resisting, however, is not burdensome. It’s not really a struggle for us. It’s only a struggle if we are making it hard for ourselves. What I mean is that resisting is really surrendering. It’s really all in the Giving Up Control method I have been discussing. The issue for us comes when we get all afraid of what the devil may be doing. One a smaller scale, when we get afraid of a thought he presents to us, we immediately suppress that thought out of our awareness. The problem with this is that the thought is going to have to come back up later in time because instead of dealing with it, we became afraid of it and pushed it down within ourselves. On a grander scale, if we immediately become anxious about a particular life-situation this will work certainly only to cause us to self-sabotage.