“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7
My house, not surprisingly, has 4 corners. Which is not a surprise. But I can tell you that I HAVE been surprised at every one of them over the 30 plus years I’ve lived here. And It just happened again! Like a practical joke when someone tries to scare me, the big black snake around the corner didn’t SCARE me, but it DID STARTLE me! Standing my ground, I watched it slither away in the opposite direction. And I wondered.
Not being an expert, I can only guess if the fleeing snake had been ‘scared’ or simply ‘startled’ away. I could tell it wasn’t going as fast as possible, but it WAS moving faster than normal. And the GOOD thing was, moving in the opposite direction from me! You see, I prefer being surprised by the scurrying tail of a big snake rather than by it’s head!
Last night, our church was invited to a local Town Hall meeting of the county school board. The request went out to all the local churches, because lately there has been a concern that unwelcome, and possibly dangerous pests, may be afoot. Evil issues that have been creeping into families lives have become serious enough that ignoring them might just PROVE dangerous. So we went!
I couldn’t be more proud to see SO many of our folks, as well as OTHER Christian people, showing up to stand out for moral principles. It was evident from the start that the school representatives were the ones startled, as speaker after speaker talked about Biblical values and the school districts need to GET BACK to them! But upon reflection, many of us wondered if the school reps were scared enough!
A number of folks cried out that Christian Values need to be brought back into the classroom. Which, these days, would not be a good direction. The victory of evil and its religion of ‘Fairness’ would dictate that the Koran and Hindu writings get equal treatment and thus, proving THAT win to be a loss. Even Martin Luther King stated that it’s impossible to legislate morality anyway. So we did the next best thing and startled each other!
Man didn’t invent the path to destruction. That was satan! It came upon us through the back door when we failed in standing up against it in the first place! Now that the big snake is in the house, what remains is the determination of how much damage it will do! So I, like other Believers, take our stands! I puff out my chest, and bellow, and yell, and pray to God…that I see a scurrying tail and not a head!
Are YOU standing up for Him?
