Satan’s Scheme
Satan called a worldwide
convention of demons.
In his opening address he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church.
We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and we can't even keep them from
forming an intimate relationship with their savior. Once they gain that
connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So let them go to their
churches; let them have their covered Dish dinners, but steal their time, so
they don't have time to. This is what I want you to do", said the devil.
"Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital
connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.
"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to
occupy their minds," he
answered. Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow.
Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7
days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles.
Keep them from spending time with their children. As their families fragment,
soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!
Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice.
Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive...to keep
the TV, VCR, CDs and computers going constantly in their home and see to it that
every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly.
This will jam their minds and break that union
with Christ. Fill the coffee tables with magazines and invade their driving
moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order
catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering
free products, services and false hopes. Keep skinny, beautiful models on the
magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's
important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives and keep the wives
too tired to love their husbands at night. Give them headaches too! If they
don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere.
That will fragment their families quickly! Give them Santa Claus to distract
them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas. Give them an
Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection and power over sin and
death. Even in their recreation, let them be excessive...have them return from
their recreation exhausted. Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect
on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks!, sporting events, plays,
concerts, and movies instead. Keep them busy, busy, busy, and when they meet for
spiritual fellowship, leave with troubled consciences. Crowd their lives with so
many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus. Soon they will be
working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good
of the cause. It will work! It will work!"
It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing
Christians everywhere to: Have little time for their God or their families; no
time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.
I guess the question is, has the devil been successful at his scheme?
You be the judge! Does "busy" mean:
B-eing
U-nder
S-atan's
Y-oke?
Author Unknown