Dear Family,
Today is Tuesday, May 20, 2025. This is Day 3 of Week 6 in our Counting toward Pentecost. It is our 38th day of Counting.
Why does God tell Israel to “remember” what Amalek did (Deuteronomy 25:17)? Consider how the enemy of God and His people works to harm us today. He attacks us at our weakest point; he attacks where we are tired, feeble, and vulnerable. The enemy uses a type of guerilla warfare.
Not only must God’s people be aware of and remember what the enemy did in the wilderness to Israel, we must be kept aware of on-going assaults, sneaky tricks, and other various wiles of the devil he uses against us.
What are some of those “wiles?”
The devil lies, kills, steals, and destroys (John 10:10a). He mixes up cause and effect, so people look at the short-term exaggerated pleasures of sin. He obscures the real effect of sin (pain and death). He beguiles people through his subtlety, with enticing words and through the vanity of our fleshly minds. He corrupts our thinking and distracts us from our focus on God. He also takes us into bondage through fear.
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Colossians 2:4, 18 (4) And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words…. (18) Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Hebrews 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Those are only a few of Satan’s tactics. Do we know them? And, if we know them, do we remember them and remain on guard?
What true believers ALSO must “remember” is that our Savior has already overcome these things. Through Jesus we can do all things because He strengthens us (Philippians 4:13).
Like Moses lifted up his hands to God, and Israel received victory, so we must lift ourselves up to God. And, if we grow weary, we rely on our faithful, believing brothers to help hold up our hands until the victory is sure! Yes, God expects that we will do that for one another!
May our loving God bless us all to be overcomers of evil until the end!
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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