“Get thee behind me, Satan.” The late Martyn Lloyd-Jones said, “If we cannot discern the chief cause of our ills, how can we discern the cure?” Jesus looked past the means to the real culprit.
When we play our blame game, we usually list either the political, social, or cultural conditions for our dilemma. But they are only puppets on strings, controlled by Satan behind the scene.
If we can only see flesh and blood as our adversary, then we will never overcome. We are in a spiritual battle with the Prince of Darkness, who hides in the shadows. Those who have put on the armor of light will recognize him for who he really is.
Lon Chaney, the actor, was known as “the man of a thousand faces," but it was always him behind each one. So it is with Satan.
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