The Plan of the Enemy

What do you suppose Satan's chief strategy is?

Does he want everyone to ruin their lives with addictions?

Is he content to keep people from salvation through constant the distractions of life around us?

Or does he hope to see us waste ourselves in a messy stew of fear, pride and self-absorption?

Here's my vote: The chief aim of Satan is to keep us from falling in love with God. If he can do that, then we are never able to enter into the Christian life in its fullness and probably won't desire to become Christians in the first place.

How does Satan keep us from falling in love? By ruining our capacity to love. Addictions, abuse, emotional wounds, performance-based relationships, nearly everything harmful in life helps to destroy our ability to give and to receive love. Without that ability, we will never truly know God.

Emotional healing can sometimes be a long and painful process. And yet, as we become healthy emotionally, it is then that we can experience the great love that the Father has for us. Once we know that love, we enter into real life. We may not understand the things that happen to us, but because we know we are deeply loved, the need to understand no longer has the same power.

Being loved beats understanding every time.