Is your devil too big and God too small?
I think far too many Christians today have allowed the kingdom of darkness and its influence to become far too big in their lives over and against the resources of God and His Kingdom. On the other side, there are Christians who hardly believe in the influence of the demonic realm, as if somehow once the Bible was finished, the devil retired and ceased to be the "god of this world" ( 2 Cor. 4:4 ). But in my camp, there are simply too many believers that allow the attacks of the enemy to overwhelm them. And somehow a lie enters in that the resources of God and His Kingdom don't seem be enough. They would never say this of course, but in practice, it has become their reality. Today as I was doing a study in the early Christian church with regards to angels, I came across this 3rd century quotation: "[God] does no less than to set His own angels over His devout servants, so that none of the hostile angels - nor even he who is called “the prince of this world” [Jn. 14:30...