Satan KNOWS something about you that he doesn't want

[Meditate!]

YOU to know or believe.

 

What... ?

 

That Jehovah loves you even with your imperfections.  (satan hates that!). If you are trying to serve Jehovah despite the Pandemic effects, injustice, lack of self worth, the mistakes of our brothers, feeling inadequate in the ministry, in putting on the Christ-like personality. etc etc etc.. (even with all of those pressures), Jehovah loves you EVEN MORE for doing. Satan knows this, although he hates all of mankind; even those who do what he wants. 

 

So what does satan do.. he uses this system to sow doubts in our mind that deflect our attention or service away from Jehovah. He wants us to believe that it is pointless serving God (Ps73 Asaph) and if we don't do it PERFECTLY... ALL OF THE TIME  we should just give it up and chase other things; materialism, our Job/career, make us feel more important about ourselves or our social position.. making money our goal. (1 Cor 15:32 )These things do have an effect on how Jehovah sees us. However Satan Also knows that if we 'try hard' to resist this tendency Jehovah loves us for it. It is true that we cannot fully understand the depth of Jehovah's love and character or WHY on earth would he love ME.. (Rom 11:33)   but we can try; by studying the scriptures we can try to discern/see these realities

 

Satan is not stupid.. he has had a lot of experience in getting mankind to be self absorbed and adopting the characteristics of 2 Tim 3:1-5. He IS affecting us all to 'some' degree and even though we may be fighting these tendencies it can still make us feel unlovable...

 

However, WE MUST remember even Satan KNOWS this is not the case! (Job 2:3)

 

He just doesn't want YOU to know or believe it! 

 

Don't let him...! 

[Stee]

Thanks for this..I really needed this reminder. 🌷

[Nelly Kim]

Well spoken.... Well spoken...

[woodeneye]

Satan definitely knows what works. It could be something very inconsequential that we would probably take for granted, no big deal, right? However once we're used to accepting whatever that is, he moves on to something else, so he can gradually break down our spiritual immune system. Take the current pandemic situation. We may feel like no one knows whether I'm on Zoom or not, so I'll just miss the meeting. This gets easier to accept after a while. Then we start filling that time frame with something else. Pretty soon, the friends begin wondering where we've been. We become embarrassed that someone noticed, which sometimes makes it worse. My friends, be determined not to let Satan make that first step! It could mean your life!

[Sister Twister]

really good to be reminded

[Sister Twister]

On 12/18/2020 at 6:53 PM, woodeneye said:

Satan definitely knows what works. It could be something very inconsequential that we would probably take for granted, no big deal, right? However once we're used to accepting whatever that is, he moves on to something else, so he can gradually break down our spiritual immune system. Take the current pandemic situation. We may feel like no one knows whether I'm on Zoom or not, so I'll just miss the meeting. This gets easier to accept after a while. Then we start filling that time frame with something else. Pretty soon, the friends begin wondering where we've been. We become embarrassed that someone noticed, which sometimes makes it worse. My friends, be determined not to let Satan make that first step! It could mean your life!

Yes so true , also harder sometimes to notice if someone is missing or perhaps fading perhaps not on camera so we don't notice them getting less enthusiastic, or less involved then they were when at the Kingdom Hall, satan is ready and waiting to capitalise ! 

Your comment reminds me to watch out for our friends.

[Lee49]

Like a recent talk and our new study book said that if Satan doesn't succeed at one particular time he'll come back when the time is" convenient," just like he did with Jesus! Thus the reason to be on guard, always making sure we have plenty to do, not for the world, working, making more money to buy more and more things to over satisfy our material wants and desires, but making sure we take advantage of our peaceful time to build up ourselves and one another. We can become lax in our zoom meetings and not take them seriously, becoming sleepy as it were, being glad just to stay in the background and becoming hearers only. Show your faces on zoom ( if your device allows it ) if not you can still answer with audio to let others know that you are there and " paying attention to the more important things ".

[Miss Mouse]

Hi Allen thanks for that.....I don't know what planet your from but " I am picking up what your putting down" MUCH appreciated nice thoughts. 

 

Wendy 

[Loje]

On 12/18/2020 at 3:44 AM, Meditate! said:

He just doesn't want YOU to know or believe it! 

There was no option for a 5 star 'gem" rating...

 

So, had to comment.

 

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