Life in Christ
All of us carry around a mental picture of ourselves, our condition, our standing with God, our future. We know that the devil’s strategy to derail God’s work in us and through us in the world is accusation (Rev.12:10). In other words, on the past and on what we have done or not done to displease God. This goes hand-in-glove with promoting a distorted image of God as one perpetually wearing a scowl, clutching a moral scorecard for each of us, scanning them relentlessly do so not to miss a single misstep we make so he can unleash his vengeful judgment on us in full strength. This lie about God feeds the lie that we must focus on our past and vice versa. A downcast spirit and a waste of time are the products of these lies. And the devil’s hope to undo us and God’s work. After Christ’s cross and resurrection lies and illusions are the devil’s only weapons. He can only distort and mislead in a parasitic way on the truth of God established in and by Jesus Christ. A spirit burdened ...