Run Like the Devil

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Run Like the Devil

It is okay to run when the devil chases you. Often times in life when danger abounds or undesirable situations exist, someone will advise “run like the devil.” While this might be good advice as it is used, it is not pertinent to God’s message today. The devil runs to and fro seeking who he might destroy. He is highly successful. God’s serving children are to run as fast or faster seeking who God can save. While we are well aware that in the end, Satan will loose the final battle, he will take many loved ones and neighbors with him to their doom. If he would sit on his hoof clad haunches, then Christians could also sit and wait. He does not and we must not. The lost depends upon our light shining and invitations given. God is good and there is hope through all trials in him. He, as the Holy Spirit, will guide, guard and protect His Children who know Him in the free pardon of sin. We must arise every morning considering our day’s journey and how we can make contact with sinners and witness to them. That is “running like the devil’ for our Lord Jesus.

Job 1:1 “Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. 2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
1 Corinthians 9:24 “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain... (26) I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection:...”
Galatians 2:2 “And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles... lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.”
Hebrews 12:1 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
2 Corinthians 4:9 “Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (James 4:7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Know God, know peace. Amen. 12-02-2020. BLL

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