Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
The devil has all his arsenals against the people of God for one major reason: to shame God and prove that he is God. He has his point to prove against God and for that reason he fights us with all strategies he can gather. The bible describes him as a roaring lion walking about, seeking who to tear apart (devour).
The bible warns us to therefore be vigilant (or watchful) in soberness not because we
should fear but because the same devouring devil is cunning and his roaring are not as it may appear. Hence, the need to watch.
The apostle Paul puts it this way ...Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices (2 Cor 2:11).
The roaring lion is also a cunning lion and as much as he is seeking who to destroy, he is also
seeking where to take the advantage, creeping in right into our hearts, feeling, emotions, habit
s, families, friends, career, e.t.c. He likes to go unnoticed and destroy irrevocably.
His fight is not against those under his captivity but against those under the covering of the Lamb of God. He is against us. The devil comes against us most times as though he is for us. He is almost everywhere now. Video, audio and print media, fashion, music and trend.
Therefore, we must be watchful to identify him, resisting him at the slightest sense of him.
Now I hope we can hear Jesus the more louder when he says "And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch."
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