We are not ignorant of Satan's devices

2Co 2:11  Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Are we ignorant of Satan's devices? If we are whose fault is it?  We shouldn't be ignorant of his devices.  He LIES. He's the Father of lies. He's the source of ALL EVIL.  He is the one who uses every thing he can to get us to be as He is.  Satan would have us all SELF ABSORBED in as many ways as possible. Truly the WORLD, we believe, should revolve around us. And when the world does NOT revolve around us we feel cheated, we feel abused by others, we feel taken advantage of and the resentment that rises within us is evil. We don't want to call it evil because we have convinced ourselves the things which are evil are good, and good things are evil.  We say it is evil to tell someone they are self-absorbed when they are really being taken advantage of. We say it is evil to not want pity from others for the way they use and abuse us, we deserve the pity.  The truth is, we do NOT. The world doesn't resolve around us, ever. It revolves around our Savior, it revolves around our God, it revolves around the Holy Spirit, they are who created us and all the things we see.  They are the all in all, They are from everlasting to everlasting. They are EVERYTHING and we live for them, not for ourselves. And in living for them we live for every other person first, before ourselves.  If only we could truly comprehend this truth. If we could understand this truth we would live as we should live - for God and for others, and NOT for ourselves, not ever.

Please Lord, we know that Satan's devices are to get us to focus on ourselves above all and that most of all our problems come from this awful device of his to get us to keep our minds selfish, our lives lived mainly for us and not others, or for others but only as they live to help us live for ourselves.

Forgive us, Father! Forgive us for our selfishness! Please, Lord, we need You! Let the Holy Spirit live in us transforming us, renewing our minds to focus for YOU, not for ourselves. Help us, love us, keep us forever in You.

Amen.