More from Glyn Evans- "Satan's deliverance minimizes the great deliverance that God promises his children. In being tempted by Satan, Jesus was promised deliverance from the cross. Many martyrs were promised deliverance from their pains by a simple recantation..."
"Satan wants us to fulfill ourselves and be the happy subjects he wants us to be- but in HIS way. That is why it is very difficult to convince unsaved people that they are not having a good time. The fact is, they are! Further, it is difficult to get people to exchange their immediate happiness, which Satan gives, for an eventual happiness, which God promises.
"By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharoah's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin." Hebrews 11:24-25
1 comments:
It's so easy to get caught up in wondering why, as Christians, that we seem to be the "ones" suffering - as you've said it - it's a difficult task to help the unsaved see that as Christians, we have eternal hope. And to convince them that this is really the life. We're reminded in scripture that it is that eventual happiness that is our home, not this one.
This past week I had the privilege of reading a passage of scripture that really spoke to me and the situation that my family has been enduring over the past year. . .
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 says that "For this reason we never become discouraged. Even though our physical being is gradually decaying, yet our spiritual being is renewed day after day. And this small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than the trouble. For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever."
It is through these temporary troubles that we find courage knowing that this is not our home. And to the unsaved, it is so important to help them realize that this time (this earthly time) is fleeting - but preparing for that ultimate home in Glory is the GOAL. It is what makes all this time here worth the effort.
2 Corinthians 5:1 says that "For we know that when this tent we live in - our body here on earth - is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever."
What deliverance in Christ we can experience immediately, even in times of struggle, if we would just accept it.
Post a Comment