Physical Attacks of Satan

Today's Devotion Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Physical Attacks of Satan

Today's Text And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. Job 1:7

Satan was “a murderer from the beginning.” John 8:44. Patriarchs and Prophets, 337. His temptations are leading multitudes to ruin. Intemperance dethrones reason; sensual indulgence, strife, and bloodshed follow. Satan delights in war; for it excites the worst passions of the soul, and then sweeps into eternity its victims steeped in vice and blood. It is his object to incite the nations to war against one another; for he can thus divert the minds of the people from the work of preparation to stand in the day of God. Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children, were swept away, one trouble succeeding another as in a moment. It is God that shields His creatures, and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer.... In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. The Great Controversy, 589, 590. The power and malice of Satan and his host might justly alarm us, were it not that we may find shelter and deliverance in the superior power of our Redeemer.... Those who follow Christ are ever safe under His watchcare. Angels that excel in strength are sent from heaven to protect them. The wicked one cannot break through the guard which God has stationed about His people. The Great Controversy, 517. Note: In some areas phrases have been omitted by the compilers for whatever reason. I have restored them as underlined text, that the full intent of the author may be given.

My Thoughts: My friend, all those who are at peace with God are naturally at enmity with Satan. In the Garden of Eden, the Son of God prophesied enmity against the power of Satan. Though the arch deceiver had won a apparent victory when he usurped the reign of this world from Adam, God in giving His Son to die for our sins, would enable all those who would accept Him as their Savior, would receive power to resist his rule. When our parents had doubted the love of God and were led into sin, God's heart of love went out to the fallen pair. God saw that they would no longer have the ability to resist the temptations of Satan; but in His infinite love and wisdom, He made a way that man would be enabled to resist Satan's power and be restored back into the image of God. Our salvation is much more than the sacrifice of the Son of God. Our salvation is found in the very life of God given to us through His Son. "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." (1 John 5:11). Our true problem with sin is not that we sin but that we are sinful by nature. We are led into sin because our natures are fallen and we have no power to resist the temptations of the evil one. Thus what we need is a new life; a life that is holy, and righteous, and good. That life is found in the only begotten Son of God. Jesus said "... I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10). Yes we are under the physical attacks of Satan, but Jesus said "Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." (John 16:32, 33). My friend, if you have accepted the only begotten Son of God as your Savior, be of good cheer. God bless,

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