Most
of us, when we think of Satan, the devil, the person of sin; we think of evil
and wickedness, but I wonder if we ever
think of his mindset or as the passage we’ll look at again: his devices.
II
Corinthians 2:11 “Lest Satan should get
an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”
His
devices: his mental perception, thought
; an evil his purpose ; that which he
thinks,
I
cannot afford to give him the upper hand; because he sure is not ignorant of my
mental perception, or the way I think; because he has observed humanity for the
last 6000 years.
What
are his devices? What is satan’s mental
perception?
I
believe we can be sure that he works through our weaknesses.
We
know that he deceived Eve, in the very beginning, by his shrewd subtlety. And
he worked in the very same line of temptations as we read of in I John.
1John
2:16 “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of
the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
So
his devices or his thought process must be putting images or thoughts before
us, that our sinful flesh lusts after, and would be swollen with pride because
of.
The
devil has been at this a while, and he saw his subtle devices work in the life of
a woman who was not created with a sinful nature. I am sure that he knows these devices will
work on us.
What
we need to learn to do, is to be temperate especially in these areas: the lust of our flesh, the lust of our eyes,
and the pride of our lives; so as not to be caught of guard. So as not to give
him any free ground, for which we did not fight to defend.
We
know he failed with the sinless Son of God; but he used the same areas of
temptation against the Lord Jesus. [Matthew 4: 3 – 10]
Now
Jesus is God in the flesh and does not have a sinful flesh as we do; but He
also is not ignorant of the enemy’s devices.
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