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Hello! I'm new to the family. This is my first blog. Ever! I read a few and was struck by the heaviness of spirit by so many fellow believers in Christ. So, I want to share a little something I've noticed in studying Satan's use of "the world system," which God tells us to avoid being "conformed to" (Rom. 12:2), and not to "..walk according to its course" (Eph. 2:2). Satan --whom Jesus called "the prince of this world" on 3 occasions and who is called "the god of this world" in 1 Cor. 4:4-- has set up "the course" of his system to try and keep our lives in a constant zone of negativity which is contrary to the joyous existence that God desires for us. And since TV and the media are omnipresent in our lives each day, Satan uses the worldly programming of media to foster a mindset of negativity and cynicism within us.
The Bible says, "...the whole world lieth in wickedness" (1 John 5:19). So the wickedness of the world is always going to be front-and-center as material for circulation. For example, he has used media's sights and sounds to give us ten, twenty and thirty years of daily doses of so-called "News" in a negative format, and we expect more of the same each day. Over a period of time, we naturally begin to see the world around us and many aspects of our own lives in an exaggerated, negative manner. We become more cynical and Satan manipulates our hearts and minds toward being more untrusting and guarded. Believing and trusting in God and Christ becomes a higher hurdle for people to leap.
The success of Satan's mental-conditioning program can be seen all around us. If something good happens, many of us are so pessimistic and beaten down by adversity that we are always waiting for the proverbial "other shoe" to drop! Then if something does go a little bit wrong, we think or say, "I knew it was too good to be true!" Or, how often have we thought, or heard others say, "Something must be wrong...things are going too well." Satan steers the course of his world system and its News toward negativity because it works at keeping people in the dark and out of step with the Kingdom of God.
But God wants us to be encouraged and to "...renew our minds," or reprogram our minds, by absorbing doses of His word on a daily basis. He has ordered that as His method to offset the destructive effects of the spiritually-contaminating diet that Satan constantly prepares for our consumption. Then we will experience the joy and perseverance through tribulation that God knows we can experience. And, then, we can "...prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" for our lives!!
Bless you!
(To learn more about my background, feel free to go to my website:
www.caughtintheworldsweb.com )
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Posted by lutherhicks on 2008-01-21 22:18:46 | Rating: | Views: 86
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