COMBAT ENEMY LIES
08th Sep 2021
One of the common lies of the enemy is to tell you that no-one has had to deal with the things you are having to walk through, and no-one can understand your situation. His lies always contain a pinch of truth, but they are not the truth.
I read a quote from C.S. Lewis written in 1948, “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, etc, etc….”
“If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.” (On living in an atomic age - 1948)
The enemy’s strategy is to lie and convince us that our ‘lot in life’ is worse than any others, that no-one has it as hard as we do! Not true! Hebrews 2 quotes Isaiah 8:17 and interprets it as if Jesus were speaking it saying, “I live by placing my trust in God.”
I began to think about the life of Jesus in terms of the opposition, rejection, hardship, enmity He endured and how He survived by knowing He was able to live trusting in His
Father’s love, care and wisdom. God’s plans would ultimately prevail.
That led me to Hebrews 12:3 that encourages us to “fix our eyes on Jesus….to consider him who endures such opposition from sinful man so that we do not grow weary and lose heart.” He lived by trusting in Father God, in His loving concern, His greater knowledge and wisdom. We see such a small part of the divine plan for our life. He has promised never to leave us, always to help us, encourage us and speak if we will position ourselves to wait on Him and listen.
Don’t buy the lie that only you have difficulties and God doesn’t care; life undoubtedly is very tough for many people, but “If God is for us, who can be against us….who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?” (Romans 8:31)
by Joyce Sibthorpe
