What do you think the devil favorite color is? We might be tempted to think of either black or red. I think it’s rather evidence that as society’s chief interior decorator, his favorite is off-white. The Great Deceiver has had a long history of dealing with mankind – like right from the beginning! And he knows very well that people will not accept his darkness in the place of God’s light. The contrast is just too great.
What Satan likes to do is offer his deception nicely mixed in with a lot of truth. In fact truth is usually the major ingredients in his painting scheme. What he does is stir in a tiny bit of falsehood along with the truth until we get accustomed to it. Little by little he adds more untruth – until we’re hooked. That’s how cults and false religion works.
There’s usually a good bit of truth in false worldviews. Something good and inviting in them draws people in. Almost always there’s a great future promised, and lots of promises along the way. There’s often a w way to deal with sin and guilt, and one that’s usually a lot easier than God’s way of confession and repentance.
Bit by bit the devil leads us to his lair by dimming the light of truth very faintly, allowing our eyes to adjust to the growing darkness – still thinking we’re fully in the light. Finally we rest at ease in the false light of his shadowy den, not really understanding that his aims all along has been first to deceive us and then to destroy us. What he’s scheming to do is snuff out that last dim candle.
C.S. Lewis explains the devil’s devices this way: “The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” Do you see any off-white in your life? – Dean Ohlman
REFLECTION
How can I make sure that I have the armor of defense against Satan?
“And no wonder Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.”
Today Verses : 2 Corinthians 11:3-15
What Satan likes to do is offer his deception nicely mixed in with a lot of truth. In fact truth is usually the major ingredients in his painting scheme. What he does is stir in a tiny bit of falsehood along with the truth until we get accustomed to it. Little by little he adds more untruth – until we’re hooked. That’s how cults and false religion works.
There’s usually a good bit of truth in false worldviews. Something good and inviting in them draws people in. Almost always there’s a great future promised, and lots of promises along the way. There’s often a w way to deal with sin and guilt, and one that’s usually a lot easier than God’s way of confession and repentance.
Bit by bit the devil leads us to his lair by dimming the light of truth very faintly, allowing our eyes to adjust to the growing darkness – still thinking we’re fully in the light. Finally we rest at ease in the false light of his shadowy den, not really understanding that his aims all along has been first to deceive us and then to destroy us. What he’s scheming to do is snuff out that last dim candle.
C.S. Lewis explains the devil’s devices this way: “The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” Do you see any off-white in your life? – Dean Ohlman
REFLECTION
How can I make sure that I have the armor of defense against Satan?
“And no wonder Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.”
Today Verses : 2 Corinthians 11:3-15
