“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.”
Jesus tells us there can be no neutrality in one’s life; you are either for or against; hot or cold. The reason so many Christian lives are tasteless and unfulfilled is because they’re empty of what gives life meaning: GOD. Augustine said, “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
An empty life is an invitation for Satan to fill it. You can’t leave God out of your life and not expect Satan to move in. He’s always searching for passivity in the lives of God’s children. You can be sure if your life is void of God, something or someone will fill that vacuum. A life without the fullness of God is of no use to ourselves or others.
And let no professing Christian boast in the fact he or she has cleaned up their life. This in itself does not prove one has a God-filled life. Satan, we’re told, comes as an angel of light. He doesn’t care if a life is clean just as long as it is a self-cleaning life. What he fears is when God does the scrubbing.
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