If you are the Son of God, then command...
If you are the Son of God, then throw...
If you are the Son of God, then bow...
Jesus said to him, 'Get away, Satan!'
Jesus,
If...then. Conditions - the WMD this world's prince uses relentlessly, his campaign of crock and awe.
If you are a child of God, then...
If you are a believer, then...
If you are a Christian, then...
If you are a fully devoted follower of Christ, then...
If...then. If...then. If...then. If...then.
Scripture quotes you: 'Get away, Satan!' I wonder if the original autographs read 'go to hell' but the world-bound translators washed your mouth out because if you are Jesus then you don't talk like that. I do wonder.
I prayed the other day that I could give up anything or anyone too small for me...may that also include images of you, Lord.
Shock me,
Amen.
The Deceiver comes at us hardest in questioning our identity. And in so doing, undermine the One who gives it to us...Look at Jesus. "If you are the Son of God..."—question that identity. Perhaps the Deceiver's plan is to entice us to embrace an identity "too small" for us—and keep us from doing what our Father is doing?
ReplyDeleteGlad I stopped by to read this. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteI find myself too tired of this game, but I play along anyway. Good prayer for those of us who struggle in this space.
Tim, that phrase 'too small' is haunting me this season...
ReplyDeleteSeth, thanks for stopping in...your word is spot-on, it is a 'game'...
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