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His response, I thought, was excellent. It went something like this:
"Okay, you are interrupting this person. But let me tell you, Satan throws interruptions into our lives all the time. We get sexually explicit junk email, we get interrupted by the trashy magazine covers in the supermarket checkout lanes, songs on the radio, billboards, and banner advertisements on our computer websites.
Those interruptions are for evil. I just want to make sure my interruption is a good interruption - that it is an interruption for God."
You know, that rings really true with me. I fight through that line of reasoning in my mind when I am out purposely trying to reach my neighbors & fellow townsfolk with the hope of the gospel. And, that thought about Satan's interruptions - that is exactly right! It happens all the time, and in places and ways that would be unbelievable, but for the facts we are warned about in the Holy Bible:
2 Corinthians 2:11
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Ephesians 6:11-12
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Seems like Satan's interruptions are everywhere!
I'm glad that through the grace of God, I had many "interruptions" in my life that I can see were from God and for God, when I look back over the years. I could give you a list of them, especially in the 10 year period from the time I rejected the concept of God & religion in my early 20's till the day I came to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you know what? I'm thankful for that kind of interruption.
And that's the kind of interruption the Lord has asked us to be living for, according to Acts 1:8.
That's a great way of looking at it. I'm taking notes.
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