Jul
22
Ardith begins her Daily Devotional this way, “There will be no acrid air in Heaven. Where He is there is sweetness, Glory, Light, healing, and creativity. when the atmosphere is wrong, you must stand on the Rock of Ages and resist the enemy.”
If you are a Christian and the smell of acrid air is all about you, you most likely are not where Jesus is. The acrid ( bitterly pungent, sharp, biting, sour and caustic) air around you may be the smell of the rotten fruit of your dead works and perhaps the Lord would have you humble yourself and get away from there.
As Christians, we need to be humbly aware that the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy. He is the master deceiver of all time. His foremost purpose is to deceive the True Church into believing he is God and get them to follow him. He already has the world. satan depends upon our pride to continue keeping a hold of us.
If satan can get us offcourse and keep us there we will miss the mark entirely and be found unfit. This is his aim. We don’t live in Heaven, we live in a fallen world. You may think yourself stalwart and determined, and satan may be laughing at you as you march merrily along in the wrong direction. Following him instead of the True God.
He has had centuries to perfect his craft. He knows everything Christians know and thousands of times more about the truth, Jesus,and salvation, and he can emulate a message so close to the real thing as to deceive the saints of the Most High. The Bible tells us this. Don’t be so sure of yourself that he can get you to shut your eyes to the real truth, and listen to him. The fruit doesn’t lie, rotten fruit is acrid and stinks.
When you smell the acrid air around you, wake up to the fact Jesus is not there! The fruit of the enemy’s work has become manifest!
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