The Lies We Are Told

03 Friday Jun 2011

Posted by Seeking Peace in Eldredge, God's love, lies, love, satan's lie

I’m borrowing from John Eldredge again today. He talks about a lie I have fallen for and still fall for from time to time but as I learn more and more about God’s love for me, the lie is rapidly losing it’s power over me.

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Subtle Attack?Looking for Agreements

The devil has more temptations than an actor has costumes for the stage. And one of his all-time favorite disguises is that of a lying spirit, to abuse your tender heart with the worst news he can deliver-that you do not really love Jesus Christ and that you are only pretending, you are only deceiving yourself. (William Gurnall)

Satan is called in Scripture the Father of Lies (John 8:44). His very first attack against the human race was to lie to Eve and Adam about God, and where life is to be found, and what the consequences of certain actions would and would not be. He is a master at this. He suggests to us-as he suggested to Adam and Eve-some sort of idea or inclination or impression, and what he is seeking is a sort of “agreement” on our part. He’s hoping we’ll buy into whatever he’s saying, offering, insinuating. Our first parents bought into it, and look what disaster came of it. The Evil One is still lying to us, seeking our agreement every single day.

Your heart is good. Your heart matters to God. Those are the two hardest things to hang on to. I’m serious-try it. Try to hold this up for even a day. My heart is good. My heart matters to God. You will be amazed at how much accusation you live under. You have an argument with your daughter on the way to school; as you drive off, you have a nagging sense of, Well, you really blew that one. If your heart agrees-Yeah, I really did-without taking the issue to Jesus, then the Enemy will try to go for more. You’re always blowing it with her. Another agreement is made. It’s true. I’m such a lousy parent. Keep this up and your whole day is tanked in about five minutes. The Enemy will take any small victory he can get. It moves from You did a bad thing to You are bad. After a while it just becomes a cloud we live under, accept as normal.

(Waking the Dead , 152-53)

Lord, I thank you that your love has more power than anything else I will ever know.

Grace and peace to you.

46

26 Wednesday Jan 2011

Posted by Seeking Peace in lies, truth

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By the time you are 46 years old, there has been plenty of time for bad ideas and hurtful emotions to take root within you. By the time you are 46 years old, there has been plenty of time to tell yourself a lot of things that are not right but seem plausible. By the time you are 46 years old, there has been plenty of time for a battle to ensnare your soul to be raging without pause.

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It isn’t easy undoing. It isn’t easy unwinding what has been wound. Sometimes, it seems, demolition work is the easier alternative but not always the practical one. Sometimes, you just have to take time to unwind, to undo, what has taken many years to build. Sometimes the bricks have to come down one at a time before the rebuilding can begin. Sometimes you have to peel the onion one layer at a time.

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That’s the way I feel today. There are things that I have accepted and believed about myself for years that aren’t true. I wish I could just demolish what isn’t right and start from the ground up but demolishing means taking out everything, good or bad, and I don’t think that’s the right approach. So I’m unstacking the bricks one at a time, I’m peeling the onion layer by layer. It’s slow and sometimes I think I’ve reached the core only to find that I’m really not there yet, there’s still some mistakes and rough patches that need to be removed so the process starts again.

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Grace and peace to you.
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