Satan's Meeting
Author Unknown
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 knowing the truth. 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 develop
a relationship with Jesus Christ. 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 their PCs
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 newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day.
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.
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 Clause
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, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they 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 get
busier and more rushed, going here and there. Having little time for their God
or their families. Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to
change lives.
I guess the question is,
"Has the devil been successful in his schemes?" You be the judge!
Does "BUSY" mean:
B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?
If you aren't too BUSY, pass
this on.
End Note…
If you have time for
recreations and pleasures but no time for family worship, think about 2 Timothy
3:4-5, which warns about people who love pleasures more than God; they have a
form of godliness, but deny the power of it. Time taken from family
activity and business to seek God's blessing is never wasted. If we take God's Word seriously, we will say:
"I can't afford not to give God and His Word priority in my
family." Samuel Davies once said:
"Were you formed for this world only, there would be some force in this
objection, but how strange does such an objection sound coming from an heir of
eternity! Pray, what is your time given to you for? Is it not
principally that you may prepare for eternity? And have you no time for
what is the greatest business of your lives?" [Taken from the 30 page
booklet entitled Family Worship by
Dr. Joel R. Beeke, 2002]
The above was received by the
MetroVoice from Bill Johnson, President of the American Decency Association (