Addicted to Love
Today's spiritual attack is about addiction, but not on the person with the addiction. Those who love the addict face as much spiritual attack as the addict does. Hence the title—Addicted to Love.
Brain Freeze
Sometimes our brains seem to freeze up, like when we eat ice cream too quickly. I was once training a friend to facilitate team building for a non-profit. We had built a list of ideas on a flip chart, and I asked her to read the list to the group as a summary. She looked at the chart for a long time and could not read a word. It's not that she was illiterate. She just froze up and could not see the words on the chart. It looked like gibberish to her. She had brain freeze.
Confidence Game
A Confidence Game is a way to deceive or trick so you can steal something. Con games work because people are gullible and believe, in their pride, that they are smarter than the con artist. They are usually wrong.
Who is the greatest con artist? That would be Satan. And who is the gullible rube? That would be us.
Simply Irresistible
The most obvious spiritual attack we get is a temptation to sin. It's been around since the Garden of Eden and it's why Jesus came to rescue and redeem us.
Sin is rebellion against God, saying NO to God. But when I sin, I don't feel like I'm rebelling. I don't feel like I am consciously saying NO to God. Why is that? Because the devil is clever.
Murphy's Law
(Spiritual Warfare Continued)
Murphy's Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. That's certainly true for the work we are called to do for the Kingdom. The devil will always battle against our gifts and against anything that might bear spiritual fruit. This attack is on our apostolate.