I saw a t-shirt today that said, "Satan is a poser." I laughed to myself and thought, "You've got that right." But the phrase has been playing in the back of my mind all afternoon... Satan is such a poser. I started thinking about the different ways he's 'posed' in my life, and thought I'd share a few.
Our house in Iowa was an OLD house- built in the early 1900's so it had a lot of character and some minor issues. One of those issues was the cracks that would mysteriously appear on walls or ceilings. They drove Charlie nuts- I mean really drove him nuts. (He'd agree with me, too.) One afternoon at our small group we were talking about the 'poses' satan takes in our lives that we allow to get to us- and we both realized that these cracks in our walls and ceiling were simply the enemy 'posing' to get at Charlie. (Now we didn't use the word 'poser', but that's basically what we were getting at.) After that, whenever we'd see a crack we'd laugh to ourselves and Charlie'd make faces back at the cracks and tell satan he wasn't going to get to him this time!
The biggest 'pose' the enemy takes in my life right now is the lie that God's done with me and there's no fixing any of the 'things' in my life that need to be fixed, especially those things that I didn't even know were broken. Whatever!! The verse I've posted today is from Matthew 14:38 reminding me to watch and pray so that I don't give in to temptation (which is an old Twila Paris song- and I'll admit here that I was once a Twila fan!). For me it isn't always the temptation, but the 'habit' that trips me up: how I deal with stress, how I deal with uncomfortable situations, how I hate confrontation, the desire to please everybody-including God, and even how I pack (and stuff) things into neat little 'pink' suitcases... The 'poser' knows exactly how to 'tempt' me, and I revert to old habits and behaviors that I'm discovering aren't the way God wants me to react. If it were only so easy to make faces at the 'cracks' in my life (not on the wall) and tell satan that he's not getting to me this time... I think I'm going to try, though, and when I start to feel myself going 'there', I'll stop and think about this t-shirt.
Satan is such a poser, but God is NOT. He never fails, always endures, and keeps His promises. And one of those promises is that he's not done with me yet- I'm still a princess in progress, and I think I'm going shopping for a new shirt!
Monday, July 28, 2008
The Poser...
I saw a t-shirt today that said, "Satan is a poser." I laughed to myself and thought, "You've got that right." But the phrase has been playing in the back of my mind all afternoon... Satan is such a poser. I started thinking about the different ways he's 'posed' in my life, and thought I'd share a few.
Our house in Iowa was an OLD house- built in the early 1900's so it had a lot of character and some minor issues. One of those issues was the cracks that would mysteriously appear on walls or ceilings. They drove Charlie nuts- I mean really drove him nuts. (He'd agree with me, too.) One afternoon at our small group we were talking about the 'poses' satan takes in our lives that we allow to get to us- and we both realized that these cracks in our walls and ceiling were simply the enemy 'posing' to get at Charlie. (Now we didn't use the word 'poser', but that's basically what we were getting at.) After that, whenever we'd see a crack we'd laugh to ourselves and Charlie'd make faces back at the cracks and tell satan he wasn't going to get to him this time!
The biggest 'pose' the enemy takes in my life right now is the lie that God's done with me and there's no fixing any of the 'things' in my life that need to be fixed, especially those things that I didn't even know were broken. Whatever!! The verse I've posted today is from Matthew 14:38 reminding me to watch and pray so that I don't give in to temptation (which is an old Twila Paris song- and I'll admit here that I was once a Twila fan!). For me it isn't always the temptation, but the 'habit' that trips me up: how I deal with stress, how I deal with uncomfortable situations, how I hate confrontation, the desire to please everybody-including God, and even how I pack (and stuff) things into neat little 'pink' suitcases... The 'poser' knows exactly how to 'tempt' me, and I revert to old habits and behaviors that I'm discovering aren't the way God wants me to react. If it were only so easy to make faces at the 'cracks' in my life (not on the wall) and tell satan that he's not getting to me this time... I think I'm going to try, though, and when I start to feel myself going 'there', I'll stop and think about this t-shirt.
Satan is such a poser, but God is NOT. He never fails, always endures, and keeps His promises. And one of those promises is that he's not done with me yet- I'm still a princess in progress, and I think I'm going shopping for a new shirt!
Our house in Iowa was an OLD house- built in the early 1900's so it had a lot of character and some minor issues. One of those issues was the cracks that would mysteriously appear on walls or ceilings. They drove Charlie nuts- I mean really drove him nuts. (He'd agree with me, too.) One afternoon at our small group we were talking about the 'poses' satan takes in our lives that we allow to get to us- and we both realized that these cracks in our walls and ceiling were simply the enemy 'posing' to get at Charlie. (Now we didn't use the word 'poser', but that's basically what we were getting at.) After that, whenever we'd see a crack we'd laugh to ourselves and Charlie'd make faces back at the cracks and tell satan he wasn't going to get to him this time!
The biggest 'pose' the enemy takes in my life right now is the lie that God's done with me and there's no fixing any of the 'things' in my life that need to be fixed, especially those things that I didn't even know were broken. Whatever!! The verse I've posted today is from Matthew 14:38 reminding me to watch and pray so that I don't give in to temptation (which is an old Twila Paris song- and I'll admit here that I was once a Twila fan!). For me it isn't always the temptation, but the 'habit' that trips me up: how I deal with stress, how I deal with uncomfortable situations, how I hate confrontation, the desire to please everybody-including God, and even how I pack (and stuff) things into neat little 'pink' suitcases... The 'poser' knows exactly how to 'tempt' me, and I revert to old habits and behaviors that I'm discovering aren't the way God wants me to react. If it were only so easy to make faces at the 'cracks' in my life (not on the wall) and tell satan that he's not getting to me this time... I think I'm going to try, though, and when I start to feel myself going 'there', I'll stop and think about this t-shirt.
Satan is such a poser, but God is NOT. He never fails, always endures, and keeps His promises. And one of those promises is that he's not done with me yet- I'm still a princess in progress, and I think I'm going shopping for a new shirt!
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Amen and amen! It's those lies that trip us up all the time. Great realization and application for your current situation.
- Kimberly
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