THE SCHEME ...
Satan called a worldwide convention.
In his opening address to his evil angels, he said,
"We can't keep the Christians from going to church.
We can't keep them from reading their Bibles
and knowing the truth.
We can't even keep them from forming an intimate,
abiding relationship experience in Christ.
Once they gain that connection with Jesus,
our power over them is broken.
So let them go to their churches;
let them have their conservative lifestyles,
but steal their time,
so they can't gain that relationship with Jesus Christ.
This is what I want you to do, angels:
Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and
maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.
"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life
and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,"
he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend,
and borrow, borrow, borrow.
Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and
the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours aday,
so they can afford their empty lifestyles.
Keep them from spending time with their children.
As their family fragments, soon,
their home will offer no escape from the pressures of work!
Over-stimulate their minds
so that they cannot hear that still, small voice.
Entice them to play the radio or
cassette player whenever they drive.
To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs
going constantly in their home and
see to it that every store and restaurant in the world
plays non-biblical music constantly.
This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ.
Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers.
Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day.
Invade their driving moments with billboards.
Flood their mailboxes with junk mail,
mail order catalogs, sweepstakes,
and every kind of newsletter
and promotional offering free products,
services and false hopes.
Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines
so the husbands will believe that external beauty
is what's important,
and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives.
That will fragment those families quickly!
Even in their recreation, let them be excessive.
Have them return from their recreation exhausted,
disquieted and unprepared for the coming week.
Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders.
Send them to amusement parks, sporting events,
concerts and movies instead.
Keep them busy, busy, busy!
And when they meet for spiritual fellowship,
involve them in gossip and small talk
so that they leave with troubled consciences
and unsettled emotions.
Go ahead, let them be involved in soul winning;
but crowd their lives with so many good causes
they have no time to seek power from Jesus.
Soon they will be working in their own strength,
sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause.
It will work! It will work!"
It was quite a convention.
The evil angels went eagerly to their assignments
causing Christians everywhere to get
more busy and more rushed,
going here and there.
