A fleshy enemy attack

Sometimes, or perhaps often, when we are doing something for the Lord or obeying His commands in some way, it is at these times when Saturn will often try and trip us up. We may feel we are going on well in our Christian lives and then the enemy tries to put obstacles in our path, doubts perhaps, he loves to remind us of our failings. I think and hope that as we mature as Christians we get to know the tricks he likes to play and perhaps we are that little bit quicker in confessing and seeking forgiveness for our sin.

I am often reminded of how Saturn tried and failed to tempt Jesus in the Wilderness and how Jesus always answered him with answers from Scripture. That for me is the main thing to remember when under attack – the Bible is the sword. The other interesting thing is that the temptation of Jesus happened after Jesus had been Baptised and was led by the Spirit for 40 days in the Wilderness. So it is not surprising given that example that often the timing of the enemy attack is after we have taken a step of faith or are about to. Maybe the week after we have had a real close encounter with God, perhaps on return from conference or after a really good Sunday morning of Praise and Worship.

We need to look out for those little areas in our lives where the Devil seeks to cause conflict and bring us down, it might be something like a temper tantrum on our drive to work when that truck pulls in front of you without indication, or the driver that waits for ages at a junction and then pulls out (usually when there is nothing behind you !) We all have pressure points and Saturn loves to pull the levers and press the buttons. The cumulative effect of lots of different small things like this can really drag us down, a cunning enemy the cause. The antidote to this is the Word, Prayer and the Holy Spirit giving us power to overcome and begin to win those battles that we all face.

So yes are weak and display weaknesses of the Flesh, we are new Spirits in old bodies and it is this struggle between our flesh and our spirit that forces us to be wholly dependent upon Him, so that He would get all the glory, for the victory He freely gives us in Christ* To remember and to continually remind ourselves that we are nothing without God, he sustains our very being and it is by his Grace that we are saved. He has already won the battle for us, we just need to claim that Victory in our lives and when enemy attack comes call ‘behind me Saturn’.


* quote from http://justpray.org/WhyItsHard.html