How much more?




Just an encouragement~~


Ever feel like you can never get on top of a problem? Here it is again, rearing its ugly and persistent head, and the thought comes,

“You’ll never win.”

Well, then, you’re in R-E-A-L-L-Y good company. 

Once again, God’s people were being assailed by a foreign entity, this time Assyria (you could substitute any number of names on the evil entity, like anger, depression, loneliness, whatever, they all fit quite well into the same storyline.)

This time, the enemy used a few interesting tactics worth looking at; thankfully, we get to listen in:




Warfare always involves strategy.  Here, the enemy—

  1. Spoke in the language of the people (Satan knows just how to communicate his message to us most effectively, sometimes even using those close to us.)
  2. Offers what seems to be a better option than what God clearly wants, (a neatly disguised slant on the serpent’s original “hath God truly said?” from back in the Garden…)
  3. Comparisons (generally a slippery slope)
  4. Mixes truth with misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or outright lies.

I rather like the king’s initial response:


Lots more could be/has been said about our counter-strategy, but I’ll end instead with this encouragement~~
