Good Monday morning! In this life, perhaps especially on a Monday morning, we can feel a lot like helpless prey must feel. The humanists would have us to rise up in our strength and just get over it. There are those times we know when strength from down below is just no way to go...and then I was caught in a rhyme, ho, ho, ho. At other times we may think knowledge is the way to ease the burden. We take up the study of the enemy and his ways, and we may even fall to giving the Adversary credit for all that happens in a bad way. However, we are not to give glory to the unholy one. It is strange to us that we not seek a cure of something through intense study of the problem and its causes. However, with sin we cannot learn the right things by studying the one who caused the fall of man. We must look to the One who brought the cure, and learn what we need by studying Him and His word.
The disciples of old would at times literally follow their master in his very footsteps. Of course, the actual footsteps of Jesus are lost beneath the dust of centuries in Old Judea. We have a way to study with our Lord though, and that is in prayer. In prayer we are no longer helpless prey, but a prayer warrior. We get to swing the sword of the Word and wear the whole armor of God. Helpless prey doesn't get to do those things. You and I may not feel like the stout-hearted ideal of the prayer warrior, but whatever we feel must be better than feeling like helpless prey.
Have a great new Monday in Christ,Bucky
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