Lion.

A lion is roaring loudly- what do you think?  Seriously, you are living in an area that lions roam free and aren't caged. You hear a lion roaring, what do you think? First you'll wonder how close it is to you. You certainly wouldn't want it to be close would you? The closer the lion the more danger you are in. Keeping your distance from the lion is your best course of action. Some might say a roaring lion isn't one that is hunting you because lions will be quiet as they hunt their prey. However, having a lion roaring once it's trapped its prey isn't unusual either. A wounded, trapped prey isn't going anywhere at all.

Where am I going with all this? How vigilant would you be if you were around lions and knew the lions were hunting after you? Certainly you wouldn't be lax. You wouldn't go outside sunning yourself without a care in the world. You would take precautions to protect yourself, to keep yourself from being attacked, from being killed. 

So why aren’t we vigilant against our greatest adversary who is most certainly around us? Why aren't we resisting our adversary? The devil is REAL. The devil desires to devour us. Unlike an actual lion ripping into our flesh, the devil rips into our spirit and he uses any and all things he can to do so. His weapons aren't teeth, they are the sins we are so easily beset by. His claws are made up of our temptations and not just temptations to sin in blatant ways but even the temptation to give in to despair.

1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 

1Pe 5:9  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Resist in the FAITH.

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

Not being ignorant of Satan's devices, resisting the Devil… why are we told these things if they aren't truth?

We must resist in the FAITH.

More on this tomorrow by the GRACE and WILL of our SAVIOR, our LORD JESUS CHRIST!

Now and forever!