Satan is an Evil Charmer

        
He's hungry for a soul to hurt.

My dad called me this morning. He sent me a text earlier, before I woke up and asked me to ask him about “Satan Baseball”. As we talked after I called him, he began to tell me all about an analogy that he must have come up with earlier that morning when thinking about the Lords prayer. He began to tell me that in life, there is a baseball game going on and God and Satan are both team owners and both of them want to have the best players on their teams. In like any baseball game, there are pitchers and hitters. If you are on Gods team, as Satan throws a ball at you, you try to hit it, and you may or may not succeed. In the chance that you strike out, you have the option of either continuing to play or to drop out and go watch the rest of the game from the stands. Now, since “Satan is an evil charmer” the balls that he throws at you to get you out of the game are not always fast balls that you simply cannot hit. As most of us know, Satan is not a team player and often does not play by the rules. Because of this, the balls that Satan throws at us are often straight to our head at 90 MPH. When this happens, the people have no other choice than to sit and watch the game. They are out of the game and can no longer play the game in the form of actually scoring points and hitting and throwing. However, in Almighty Gods eyes, even though you are out of the game, it doesn’t mean that you cannot help the team in other ways. I think that in Gods eyes, the act of not giving up and still pressing on even though the 90 MPH ball crippled you for life and you can’t talk right, God takes pleasure in the act of you furthering the kingdom with a happy heart even though you can’t do some of the things that others can.

Sometimes, Satan throws a 90 MPH fast ball right at our face. Our wife’s are brutally murdered. Our father dies. Our children are kidnapped. We go throw ugly and messy divorces that no matter how much we work on them, they just don’t work out.  In these circumstances, we must realize that WE. MUST. PUSH. ON. Sometimes people think that when disaster strikes their life that the first person to blame is God. However, it seems that even though it is human nature to think that way, the reality is that “Satan is an evil charmer and he’s hungry for a soul to hurt”.

My dad today is working for a lady who had both of her sons die in two separate car accidents within a year of each other. When people hear about this, the first thing that many non-believers and Christians alike think of is “How can good Christian people like them have such a bad thing happen to them?” As  Christians, we subscribe to the fact that this world is not Gods realm, It’s Satan’s and for this reason we must see that if Satan is allowed to roam this world freely, he will throw the 90 MPH head shot at the people who are the most strong in their faith. Unfortunately, these people are our pastors and our church leaders. In this way, we must see that Pastors are people too and even though in many circumstances they are most responsible for many ways that they would fail including stealing and money misappropriation, I have to think that Satan would not tempt a good Christian with things that he knows he would not fall victim to. For this reason, when our pastors find out that their child has an illness that the doctors say will not be cured or when our worship leaders son dies in a car accident, blaming god for these problems is not the answer. An almighty, all loving god is just that. Loving. Almighty. Wonderfull. Satan is not.

In the book of Acts, we find many people who have had multiple fast balls thrown at their body. In Acts 7, we see Saul as a static character that will not change much and seems to be pretty set in his ways. He hates the church and feels as though his mission in life is to persecute all Christians. As he approves of Stephan’s stoning, we see a ruthless, cold hearted man. However, when looking at the actual act of the stoning, we see that not a man there, like in most and all stoning was right in doing so. These people were being told the truth about their ways of life in hopes by Stephan that they would repent and have open hearts and ears to hear and receive the gospel. When Stephan addresses the Sanhedrin, he says in Acts 7:51-53 ⁵¹ “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! ⁵² Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him— ⁵³ you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.” After that, they stoned him because the words that Stephan had said to him were not words that they wanted to hear.

In my life, I hope I speak the truth no matter how much damage it will do to my own personal gain. I want to be a man of truth and a man of knowledge and integrity. Only through the lord will I do so and I call for his help daily to get me through the ins and outs of my life. In him I find hope and strength.