LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ENEMY OF YOUR SOUL
 
    By A. W. Tozer
 
    Lest Satan should get an advantage of us:
    for we are not ignorant of his devices.  2 Corinthians 2:11
 
        The devil is declared in the Scriptures to be an enemy
    of God and of all good men.  Because he is a spirit he is
    able to "walk up and down in the earth" at his pleasure.
 
        While we must not underestimate the strength of our
    foe, we must at the same time  recognize that we need
    not  live  in  constant  fear of him!  If he cannot make
    skeptics of us he will make us devil-conscious and thus
    throw a permanent shadow across our lives, for there is
    but a hairline between truth and superstition.
 
        We should learn the truth about the enemy, but we
    must stand bravely against every superstitious notion
    he would introduce about himself. The truth will set us
    free but superstition will enslave us!
 
        The scriptural way to see things is to set the Lord
    always before us, put Christ in the center of our vision;
    and if Satan is lurking around he will appear on the
    margin only and be seen as but a shadow on the edge of
    the brightness.  It is always wrong to invert this---to set
    Satan in the focus of our vision and push God out to the
    margin. Nothing but tragedy can come from such inversion!

       The best way to keep the enemy out is to keep Christ  in!
    The sheep need not be terrified by the wolf; they
     have but to stay close to the shepherd. The instructed
     Christian whose faculties have been developed by the
     Word and the Spirit will practice the presence of God
     moment by moment!
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    Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.