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 inver-

sion!

    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.

Check Light Heart's  www.PracticeGodsPresence.co which will tell you how to Practice God's Presence as Brother Lawrence did.

Below is what A. W. Tozer says about Brother Lawrence.  I certainly agree with him.  If we are Christians, we should do everything to get closer to Our Beloved Savior Jesus Christ.

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   One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.
... A.W. Tozer



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