Food For Thought

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 Satan called a worldwide convention.  In his opening address to his
 evil angels, he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going to
 church.  We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the
 truth.  We can't even keep them from conservative values.  But we can
 do something else.  We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding
 experience in Christ.  If they gain that connection with Jesus, our
 power over them is broken."
 
 "So let them go to church, let them have their conservative
 lifestyles, but steal their time so they can't gain that experience in
 Jesus Christ.  This is what I want you to do angels.  Distract them
 from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital
 connection throughout their day!"
 
 "How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.
 
 "Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent unnumbered
 schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
 
 "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow.
 Convince the wives to go to work and the husbands to work 6 or 7 days
 a week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their lifestyles.  Keep
 them from spending time with their children.  As their family
 fragments, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures
 of work."
 
 "Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small
 voice.  Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they
 drive, to keep the TV, the VCR, and their CD's going constantly in
 their homes.  And see to it that every store and restaurant in the
 world plays music constantly.  This will jam their minds and break
 that union with Christ."
 
 "Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers.  Pound their
 minds with the news 24 hours a day.  Invade their driving moments with
 billboards.  Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail
 order catalogues, and every kind of newsletter and promotional
 offering, free products, services and false hopes."
 
 "Even in their recreation, let them be excessive.  Have them return
 from their recreation exhausted, disquieted and unprepared for the
 coming week.  Don't let them go out in nature.  Send them to amusement
 parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead.  And when they
 meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk
 so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotions."
 "Let them be involved in soul-winning.  But, crowd their lives with
 so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ.  Soon
 they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health
 and family, and unity for the good of the cause."
 
 It was quite a conversation in the end.  And the evil angels went
 eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get
 busy, busy, busy and rush here and rush there!
 
 Has the devil been successful at his scheme?  You be the judge.