"The
Devil Never Forgives Those Who Escape Bondage":
A.W.Tozer"
'Ain't it
the
truth' as said in the vernacular! This devotional by
Tozer is a
reason I feel the Rapture can't be far off. We
Christians have
the devil doing double time on us and I think it's because
he knows
his time is so short. That means our time is short
here!
Praise God!
THE DEVIL
NEVER
FORGIVES THOSE WHO ESCAPE BONDAGE
By A. W. Tozer
But
Peter
said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine
heart
to lie
to the Holy Ghost?. . . Acts 5:3
As we move farther on
in the
Christian life we may
expect to
encounter increased hostility from the enemy
of our
souls.
Although this is seldom presented to
Christians
as a
fact of life, it is a very solid fact indeed
as every
experienced Christian knows; and one we shall
learn how
to
handle or stumble over to our own undoing.
If Satan opposes the
new convert
he opposes still
more
bitterly the
Christian who is pressing on toward a
higher
life in
Christ. The Spirit-filled life is not, as many
suppose, a
life of
peace and quiet pleasure. It is likely to
be
something quite
the opposite.
Satan hates the true
Christian
for several reasons.
One is
that God
loves him, and whatever is loved by
God is
sure to be
hated by the devil. Another is that the
Christian,
being a
child of God, bears a family
resemblance
to the
Father and to the household of faith.
A third reason is that a true
Christian
is a former slave
who has
escaped
from the galley, and Satan cannot
forgive
him for
this affront. A fourth reason is that a
praying
Christian
is a constant threat to the stability of
Satan's
government. The Christian is a holy rebel loose
in the
world with
access to the throne of God.
Satan never knows from what
direction
his danger
will come.
Who
knows when another Elijah will arise,
or another
Daniel?
or a Luther, a Finney or a Booth?
Yours in Christ,
Paul N.
F.