Well, I did not quite finish my reading yesterday. No excuses, I failed... Satan won. Please pray for me to continue to fight.
I guess this really brings up an important point that I would love to blog about. Why is it so hard to read the Bible? Why is it so hard to do anything spiritual?
You want to know why? The answer is Satan.
Satan works extra hard on Sundays. Sunday is definitely not a day of rest for him.
Everytime you try to do something spiritual to grow closer to God. Satan goes on the offensive. He discouragees you. He makes you extra tired on Sunday mornings. He reminds you that Leviticus isn't the most exciting book in the Bible. He reminds you that television is exciting.
Have you ever noticed that Monday really isn't the hardest day of the week? I mean Sundays are exhausting.
We wake up Sunday morning, between 8-10, to go to church. (We are already sleeping in at least 2 hours more than the rest of the week) Then, we get out of church around noon, and go home and take a nap. (Because being awake for the past 4 hours has been exhausting) Then, we go back to church for 2 hours and it is all we can do to stay awake after church.
Does this make any sense to you? Why is church the most draining thing in the entire world?
Because Satan is at work. If he can convince us not to wake up at 8-10 to go to church, Satan wins. If he can convince us that Sunday night church isn't important, Satan wins. If he can convince us that there are better uses of our time than to read the Bible, Satan wins.
For we war not against flesh and blood, but against Satan and his demons... Are you ready? Are you even fighting? Did you even know that you are at war? BTW... who is winning in your life?
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satan is winning... you may not have finished the reading... but i didn't do the reading at all! not even one verse from leviticus! i was up til 2 or so reading theology/philosophy... class was not that exciting today... my ADD started to kick in... next time maybe i will read the Bible first and skip the hw. well here i go trying to do two day's readings in one today!
ReplyDeleteHey Brent, you're a Pastor. Your Sundays are suppose to be exhausing.
ReplyDeleteSatan is a real Devil, ain't he? I know whenever I have really, really gotten into serious spiritual matters, that is when something happens to pull me away, somebody gets sick, or I lose a job or worse, start having to work more hours (cause if I'm unemployed I do have more hours). He sees a Christian becoming effective, then he sticks out a foot trying to trip you.
I just made a determination on this reading challenge and if I can't make my pages at one sitting, I'll grab a page here and there throughout the day. And if I find I still have some energy amybe eeven get a couple pages ahead so if a busy day comes up I don't fall behind, I just even out.
Finding a lot of new stuff to think about in Leviticus and Numbers, too.
But those'll have to wait. I still am working through Martha, Mary and Lazarus and haven't even got the poor guy out of the ground yet.
Larry