Sin Toy dream
I am running a safe retreat house
- beautiful grounds, all sorts of God’s creatures, walking paths surrounding.
I was walking meeting many people on paths.
I Came upon a
young women playing with a
miniature Satan.
The thing was alive, not a doll. She
thought he was so cute. I
immediately recoiled and told her she must get rid of the dangerous thing. She got all upset and defensive.
She said he was cute and fun to play with and I could not make her get
rid of him. She said I just
didn’t want her to have any fun. Since
she had given him permission to be there, there was nothing I could do.
He just looked at me and laughed and said, “I guess I won that
round.”
What she did not understand is -
that is the way Satan comes into our lives and gets a foothold.
He is always cute and fun at first and we think we can control him.
Then later he grows larger and larger and He gets in control and is no
longer fun. That is when we become
his slave and find out how much pain and unhappiness he can bring into our
lives.
The other thing she did not
understand was that by her giving Satan permission to be there, not only was she
endangered, but all of those living in the safe retreat house were endangered.
She was thinking only of her own fun at the moment, not what her actions
would mean to her future or to the others living around her.
Heb 10:26-31
If we deliberately keep on sinning
after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is
left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will
consume the enemies of God.
Anyone who rejected the Law of
Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
How much more severely do you
think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot,
who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified
him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said,
"It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will
judge his people." It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the
living God.
(NIV)
Heb 12:7-11
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. (NIV)
© 1996 Eva McAllen
Butterfly Publishing