Pushing the Right Buttons

“Simon, Simon (Peter), listen! Satan has asked excessively that [all of] you be given up to him [out of the power and keeping of God], that he might sift [all of] you like grain,

But I have prayed especially for you [Peter], that your [own] faith may not fail; and when you yourself have turned again, strengthen and establish your brethren.

And [Simon Peter] said to Him, Lord, I am ready to go with You both to prison and to death.

But Jesus said, I tell you, Peter, before a [single] cock shall crow this day, you will three times [utterly] deny that you know Me.”

Luke 22:31-34

 

Who knows best which buttons to push in you to get you riled or upset or downright angry?

Usually, it is someone close to you or at least someone who has observed your behavior often enough to know just what to say or do to set you off.

Our words and our behavior can be very revealing to others.

Likewise, they can allow the enemy to know where our faith is weak.  

The devils’ primary strategy is to undermine your faith in God.

We can make it very easy or very hard for him to do that.

He is after that mustard seed faith in you.

Since it is impossible to please God apart from faith (Hebrews 11:6) and since the last thing the devil wants is for your life to be a delight to God and to please Him, he will do all within his power to destroy that faith in you.

He tried with Peter.

He will try with you.

Jesus is interceding for you – even as He did for Peter – that your faith does not fail.

God wants you and me to grow in our faith.

And He is far, far greater, as is His power, than satan.

Turn your mustard seed faith over to God.

Don’t surrender it to satan.

Peter’s faith faltered but he ultimately finished the race well.

While he may have lost a battle, through his faith he won the war!

Don’t surrender your faith to satan, instead let it grow.

Let that mustard seed faith in you grow, flourish and delight the Lord!