“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12)
In other words, we wrestle against
unseen things, which know what the stakes are and want to detour us from
reaching the gates of Heaven. How well I
remember when I was as a teen, Pistol Stearns teaching our Sunday School class at
Boskeydell Baptist Church and asking what Satan looks like. “Is he dressed in a
red underwear and carrying a pitchfork? Does he have a pointed tail and horns
on his head? If he did we would surly know him.”
Pistol was right but even then some
of us would still follow him because the way back to God seems so hard and
Heaven seems so far away. Evil is so
cleaver. “You messed up too bad. You’ll never get to Heaven now. Come with me,”
it says.
Most of us got to that point because
of those unseen things appear good, but lead us away from the straight and
narrow path. “I’m all right I can still see the path,” we say. Then one day we
realize we are too far away to get back without hardship. Been there done that
and I bet you have also. Paul certainly did and he thought he WAS doing the
right thing. The Lord knew his heart and what he desired. Paul may have even
been like my dad sitting out in the bushes with his shotgun praying, “Lord help
me see who is cutting my fence so I can shoot at them.” Paul might have been
praying, “Lord help me find those horrible Christians so I can kill them.”
Evil is so cleaver that most of the
time it appears good and holy and righteous.
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