Are You Withdrawing From Your Proper Position and Allowing The Devil To Have A Foothold In Your Life?

Are you giving room for the enemy?   To give room means to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.  Are you withdrawing from your proper position with God and allowing the enemy to take a seat in your thoughts, your home, and your life?   

The Bible tells us to be sober and to be vigilant because our adversary the devil is seeking whom he may devour.   It tells us not to give the enemy a foothold.   A foothold is a secure position from which further progress may be made.  It is the enemy's desire to make progress in your life to the point where he takes away your joy,  your strength, and your peace.   Are you willing to give him room so that he can take advantage of you in life.   

God is a good God.  He is a faithful, just, and forgiving God.   He watches over us, leads us, and provides for us.   It is His desire for us to experience His goodness, grace, love, and mercy in every part of our lives but we have to want Him "more".   We have to want Him more than we desire the things that appeal to our flesh.   We have to stay close to Him, learn of Him, and magnify Him in all that we do and say.   We have to stop catering to our flesh and opening up doors in our lives where the enemy is able to have a foothold where he is able to make progress and take over our lives. 

Everything we do in life is a matter of choice.   Choose today to live your life in the security of God's Word. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

EPHESIANS 4:27-30

27 Neither give place to the devil.

28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.