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At temptations door the smell of sin is strong. You can almost taste the sin and it's bitter emptiness without even opening the door. It's a terrible place to be; feeling like you know the devil so well, you could actually be him if you wanted to. The feeling of his dark abyss of loneliness and his longing to again be beautiful. Having no place of repentance to grasp, and not even one hope of God's acceptance... ever to be found, he can only plunge deeper into hate and tear at himself to grab the pain of loneliness that echoes through his soul like a quietness that fills an empty house and it's many rooms, until he cries out to God for the trillionth time just to hear his own voice in the emptiness once again. I bring my hand back away from temptations door, and slowly walk backward away from certain death. Then come the words of the serpent, "you are so strong and powerful to stay away from the door"... agreeing with these words is another form of certain death. A feeling of being higher and mightier than so many others who always fail the test. The serpents words are sent to make me weak, because pride makes all weak, and pride always comes before a fall. Humility, true humility before God produces strength from God. "No devil, I am not strong and powerful, God is, and He is living in me, and He is against YOU!"
Jesus said, "pray that you enter not into temptation." Do not even touch the door knob, of Temptations Door.
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