Satan has the advantage

I remember that whenever I wanted my husband's son to visit us, I would tempt him with some food that I knew he liked and it always turned out as I had planned . I also negotiated with my son, I did not call it blackmail because it is an ugly word, but I told him that I would do something in exchange for obtaining something from him. I was using something that was tempting to them in order to get what I wanted. Why did it work? Because I knew what his weak points were and it was very easy for me to win the battle by attacking from the weaker side.

In our Christian life we have a first-rate negotiator, he is someone who knows our character, our tastes, our weaknesses, the things to which it is easy to give in, which is the most sensitive sense and of course, is an expert in the law, only he does not use it for good, he uses it to manipulate us at will in such a way that we break and we have to be imprisoned.

It is sad to return to prison after being released, Christ with his blood paid the bail and thanks to mercy and grace today we are called legitimate children. This, of course, does not please Satan and in fact he has the upper hand in some things. While you spend your days without opening the Bible because time does not reach you, he has had millennia to learn it by heart, with it he tried to deceive Jesus when he was starving in the desert. Any of us would have succumbed to temptation! Not Jesus, He was firm in his faith and in his Father-son relationship.

Satan can recite the scripture to you, only he will try to convince you that it is mutable and that what God revealed to you is not as you understood. It will put doubts in your mind, it will soften the consequences of some sin, it will make you feel compassion for yourself and think that you deserve a little world-style happiness, which in the end leads to misery. spiritual.

When we neglect our prayer life and our relationship with God we weaken, we become a breeding ground for the germs of sin, they cannot live in holiness, but when we allow some filth to penetrate the space that should only be occupied by God, we are weakening our immunity and we can be attacked.

David said: How much I love your law! All day I meditate on it. Ps 119.97 Do you think the devil would have a chance with us if we lived this way? If we live in the shadow of God, the sun will not burn us. There is a saying that goes: "Idle mind, devil's workshop." When David decided to take a few days off, while his men were in battle, disaster struck, he fornicated with Bathsheba which made him guilty of adultery and murdered Uriah. It is evident that at that time he was not meditating on the law, had he done so, he would not have conceived sin.

Let us always remember that the advantage that Satan has over us is destroyed through our relationship with God, we do not become deaf when a brother points out something to us, they are used by God to alert us that something is wrong in our spiritual life, not always them that surround us live sniffing in our life, sometimes they are the alarm signal for us to move away from the abyss.

The key word is to flee, do not face it, you are not strong enough to do it, do not flirt with sin, God shouts at us no, but we are able to adorn sin in such a way that we see it beautiful, sublime and even believe that it comes from Him, that is disastrous, the word alerts us in 1 Corinthians 10.12 "So, whoever thinks he is standing firm, see that he does not fall."

Run your race and measure the obstacles, but do not deviate to the right or to the left, let nothing distract you, always remember, Satan has the advantage of you.