The Adversary Walks About As A Roaring Lion

"Be sober! Watch! For your adversary, the devil, is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking someone to swallow up." (1Peter 5:8)

If the Adversary is walking about as a roaring lion, then he must not really be one.

If you're going to a Halloween party dressed up as a tube of toothpaste, then it stands to reason that you are really not a tube of toothpaste.

"Phyllis! Is that a tube of toothpaste walking up our driveway?"

"Either that, Bill, or it's someone dressed up as a tube of toothpaste."

How does the Adversary seek to "swallow" someone? Most people would say, "By making them sin! By putting hate in their heart! By making them kick cats!" No. These people are giving Satan too much power. He loves it when people think that. What really drives him crazy is when people accept everything from the hand of God. Trouble? Thank you, Lord. Heartache? Thank you, Lord. Frustration? Thank you, Lord. I know this is a radical way of thinking and that it is sometimes nearly impossible to do, but it is the Scriptural ideal (Ro 8:28, Ep 1:11, Jb 2:10).

As long as you keep thinking that the Adversary can do this or that to thwart God's will for your life, then he's got you convinced that he really is a roaring lion. By consciously giving Satan the potential ability to ruin God's designs for you, you have fallen for his trick and have swallowed his "line." By getting you to swallow him, he has swallowed you.

The Adversary walks about as a roaring lion, the big liar.

By Jeff Priddy

from The Idle Babbler Illustrated, April 1995

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