Remember in the movie "Jungle Book", the large python, Kaa, was singing to Mowgli "Trust In Me"? He was mesmerizing Mowgli, licking his chops, expecting a nice meal.
Ahhhh, which character was it that saved Mowgli? :)
Well, this morning, while I was putting my make up on, I found myself swaying from side to side and began singing "Trust In Me." Isn't that funny? LOL
While thinking about that wicked python doing what he did best, I was equating him to satan...how he works with deception to put us to
SLEEP, make a meal out of us and be the killer, stealer, and destroyer that he IS, and has been since the beginning of time.
In
James 1:15 we're told:
14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
There's a progression here.The desires in our own life we are enticed with.
The desire is conceived.
The desire gives birth to sin.
Sin when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Doesn't happen just lickety-split. All the while that snake, satan, is swaying back and forth mesmerizing us, and attempting to put us to sleep to desires that do not belong to us, sin, and death.
In
Hebrews 3:12, 13 we're encouraged with:
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be
hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
15 while it is said:
"Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
I see here:Unbelief produces an evil heart.
That an evil heart of unbelief will put distance between us and God.
Sin is conceived here.
Sin produces deception.
Our hearts can be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
We are partakers of Christ
IF we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end of our lives.
None of us desire to be enshrouded in deceit.
If we have unconfessed sin, it will serve to eventually bring deceit into our lives and then harden our hearts.
GOOD GRIEF!!! WHO WANTS THAT????? I SAY WAKEUP - EVERYONE OF USI Corinthians 15:34 tells us:
34 Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
Romans 13:11-1411 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to
awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
13
Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
14 But
put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
I Thessalonians 5:4-64 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.
5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
6 Therefore
let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.
Isaiah 52:11 Awake, awake!
Put on your strength, O Zion;
Put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city!
Ephesians 5:1414 Therefore He says:
"Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light."
II Timothy 2:22-2622 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
23 But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife.
24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,
25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,
26 and
that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
Colossians 3:11 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
John 8:1212 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."
If any of us find ourselves compromised by sin, and who of us have not, all we need to do is confess before the Lord and He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We will not be plagued by the deceitfulness of sin. We will not be mesmerized by the trickery of hell.
Father, I thank YOU that Your Son said HE is the Light of the world, and those of us who follow Him will not walk in darkness, but will have the Light of life. You have brought us out of the kingdom of darkness into YOUR Kingdom of Light. I decree that we will not be mesmerized by satan with the deceitfulness of sin. I declare that each of us will WAKE UP!! Thank You for HELPING US to walk out on the devil and clothe ourselves with Christ, in Jesus' Name.
