The devil can hide

John Blanchard once said, “Nothing promotes the activity of the devil more than the Christian’s proximity to God.” If the Christian was assured that he or she could always see the devil or know that he was near, they would always be faithful.

But unfortunately for us, we can see the devil but we don’t recognize him. In Genesis 3:1-6, Eve listened to the devil, who came in the form of a serpent, which, at that time, was harmless. Her heeding the devil introduced sin into the world, and opened a new domain for the devil. In 2 Corinthians 11:13, Paul wrote, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” Christ furthermore said in Matthew 7:15 that you cannot recognize false workers because they look harmless. Given the fact of the devil’s aggressiveness (1 Peter 5:8), we have to know what the devil is like and what he wants to do to us. Like someone once said, the devil may can hide, but he always leaves a stink behind him!

Kyle Campbell