But for the Lord setting up a barrier, there are mighty rushing waters wanting to break over and overwhelm us. Too many have been washed away. Many who once professed great faith have drowned, all because the waters found a little break in the barrier which eventually caused everything to come crashing down.
So many times we act as though matters of our faith are just between us and the wonderful God we serve. We forget that there is an adversary and he is accompanied by wicked hosts whose aim is to swallow us whole as they have already done to so many great Christians.
All the devil is seeking is the slimmest or briefest chance to make a little leaven leaven everything. A tiny slip to ruin the labour and faithful service of many years.
And hard hearted Christians are there ready, they will gladly assist him with burying those he has wounded. Once a good captain stumbles, so-called Christians are the first to procure a trumpet and broadcast to the world that the man or woman of God had never been real to begin with, but was false from day one.
Satan is after the name you bear and boast about, the name of a Christian. It saddens him that you managed to get yourself that name to start with, and he desires to strip it off and establish that it never even belonged to you from the beginning. He hates a genuine Christian reputation and testimony. His children hate them too, because you are showing what they could have been but failed to.
I watched an international TV interview with Billy Graham towards the end of his life and all the interviewer was interested in was point to a mistake he once made, an utterance he made which he promptly withdrew. The interviewer would not go beyond this point, an issue that had long been put to rest. He was not interested in any of the great works, the mighty crusades and their attendant effects upon a whole generation. That is the devil for you. Those who do not have the nature of Christ yet are his mouthpiece. They have his spirit. He is their father.
All dogs who have gone back to their vomit think every dog out there is eating vomit. Those who got overwhelmed by the spirit of Sodom think everyone has an address there. There is a prevailing discourse especially on social media that everybody is unfaithful. Unfaithful to God and to spouses. This is simply because many espousing this had once been to church but stayed close to the door where the hands of the wicked one reached them and plucked them out.
I have worked with many believers who flaunt their beautiful godly robes and are boastful of righteousness without a care. They are justly proud of the fact that they are God’s own. Some ministers make so much of the fact that they are anointed. The devil himself knows all these. He knows you are a child of God and that you are marvelously anointed. What you need to add is caution. Be cautious. Be careful. This is what the Bible admonishes. Your adversary the devil is looking for those he will devour. Don’t strut carelessly. Keep within godly boundaries. Don’t stray into the devil’s territory unless you are specially assigned and equipped to go behind the enemy lines.
Samson could have used this admonition and procured himself a different outcome. Worldly music is out of bounds unless you are contacting them for knowledge purposes. And even at that, your antenna must be jutting out! If you stay close to God, He will guide you to his own. You will not fall into the trap of the myriad of foxes that have overrun worship houses, be you a man or woman.
Samson genuinely believed his anointing was enough. He could dine with the devil’s children without a toll until they gorged out his eyes and made him to grind on the millstone in the house of their god!