So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this,...[man] will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." Genesis 3:14a-15b
I was confronted with this verse the other day and it got me to thinking. We are God's children and although we have fallen and are cursed we have power in our redemption. We will be bitten by the serpent, temptation will get the best of us and we will fail, but all that is, is one small nip to our heel. And with that heel is what we will use to crush Satan's head, not hurt or damage but Crush, as a friend said, have his brains all over our shoe. So my question is, why do we let a small strike to our heel completely destroy us? We fall one time and instead of walking it off we fall to the ground wallow in self pity for a while and wonder why it is so much harder to get back up again. I feel like I haven't emphasized enough, that we can DESTROY the enemy, he is some slithering coward and we are God's children. He has so much power in our lives because we let him. We let him speak lies into our life and we let him continually hurt us because we don't get up crush his head and walk away. Instead we tell him exactly where it hurts the most and then wonder why he won't leave us alone. Once we stop making Satan so big and God so small we will realize that we look ridiculous for being scared of snake when we have GOD on our side. I mean he is GOD, take a moment and just think about the magnitude of our God, we make him so commonplace, so mundane when God is magnificent and incomprehensible. HE IS GOD. And as another friend likes to add, he is on FIRE. I mean really who is going to win this fight; some snake or a pillar of FIRE.
And when I say we, I mostly mean myself, that is something I need to apply in my own life. As my pastor has said "blow for blow"; don't just take the hit from him and walk away, hit him back, don't let satan have the power because his power comes from deception and when you are living in the truth he loses all his power.
I was confronted with this verse the other day and it got me to thinking. We are God's children and although we have fallen and are cursed we have power in our redemption. We will be bitten by the serpent, temptation will get the best of us and we will fail, but all that is, is one small nip to our heel. And with that heel is what we will use to crush Satan's head, not hurt or damage but Crush, as a friend said, have his brains all over our shoe. So my question is, why do we let a small strike to our heel completely destroy us? We fall one time and instead of walking it off we fall to the ground wallow in self pity for a while and wonder why it is so much harder to get back up again. I feel like I haven't emphasized enough, that we can DESTROY the enemy, he is some slithering coward and we are God's children. He has so much power in our lives because we let him. We let him speak lies into our life and we let him continually hurt us because we don't get up crush his head and walk away. Instead we tell him exactly where it hurts the most and then wonder why he won't leave us alone. Once we stop making Satan so big and God so small we will realize that we look ridiculous for being scared of snake when we have GOD on our side. I mean he is GOD, take a moment and just think about the magnitude of our God, we make him so commonplace, so mundane when God is magnificent and incomprehensible. HE IS GOD. And as another friend likes to add, he is on FIRE. I mean really who is going to win this fight; some snake or a pillar of FIRE.
And when I say we, I mostly mean myself, that is something I need to apply in my own life. As my pastor has said "blow for blow"; don't just take the hit from him and walk away, hit him back, don't let satan have the power because his power comes from deception and when you are living in the truth he loses all his power.
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