Human nature tends to excesses by a kind of evil magnetic attraction. We instinctively run to one of two extremes, and that is why we are so often in error.<\/p>\n
A proof of this propensity to extremes is seen in the attitude of the average Christian toward the devil. I have observed among spiritual persons a tendency either to ignore him altogether or to make too much of him. Both are wrong.1<\/p>\n
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The best way to keep the enemy out is to keep Christ in. The sheep need not be terrified by the wolf; they have but to stay close to the shepherd. It is not the praying sheep Satan fears but the presence of the Shepherd.2<\/p>\n
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It is ironic that the devil gives the world all of its extremists in every realm\u2014entertainment, politics, society, education, anarchy, intrigue\u2014you name it! Yet it is the same devil that frightens believers about the great danger of becoming \u201cextreme.\u201d3<\/p>\n
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There are references in the Bible to the devil\u2019s wiles and his shrewdness. But when he gambled on his ability to unseat the Almighty he was guilty of an act of judgment so bad as to be imbecilic.4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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