We have been hearing increasingly about, and it is becoming even more apparent, the tactics of the enemy to draw people away from the faith. This ranges from distracting people so much with an overload of information that seems based in knowledge, such as science (discoveries of whole worlds made of water, ancient dinosaur bones found with skin still attached, mysterious alien structures out in space, the list goes on and on), to overwhelming someone with grief to the point that they forget what faith is (negative and worrying news; the next outbreak is just around the corner, global warming will end our planet in just 20 years, this list just goes on and on too).

All I am asking is that we don’t necessarily ignore this information but look at it from a perspective of faith. There is no mistake greater than accepting ‘what we perceive’ as knowledge over faith in Jesus Christ. When we do, we give the enemy a weapon to use against us.

That is a tactic of the enemy, and one he is good at working into the world. All the knowledge in the world cannot be greater than God who created knowledge, just as we can’t.

Satan is great at telling astonishing tales and stories. When we listen to these tales, he will build them up until they are larger than life. When you are a soldier in a war, do you listen to the enemy, or do you listen to what your commander tells you to do? The enemy is Satan and your Commander is Jesus Christ. I feel the need to accentuate this, because if we are ever to be prepared for spiritual warfare, this is what we need to be prepared to do.

We need to decide to stand in faith.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 (ESV):

“The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false.”