Watch out! The devil's watching you...

The last couple of months have been tremendous. God has been opening new opportunities for me to serve him... I went through an experience I thought would have crushed me but it just made me stronger and brought me closer to God... God has been ministering to me so beautifully through His Word. I was on a 'spiritual high'. And that's not all. My professional and personal life seemed to be soaring too.

Then suddenly, a couple of days ago, something happened... and before I knew it I was down in the dumps. I was actually asking, "Where are you, God?" (I know you're thinking 'how tragic!' and you're allowed to. It's not something I'm proud of anyway :p)

I desperately wanted to take my Bible and start confessing God's Word but instead of picking myself up and rising above the situation, I was lying on my bed and hoping God would miraculously make everything disappear. And you know what? He did... in His own way!

He spoke to me from the book of 2 Samuel that I had been reading the previous week. Here's what jumped out at me...

In the run up to David's love affair with Bathsheba,

• David was anointed king over Judah.
• He had danced before the ark of God with all his might, wearing just a linen ephod. And when his wife Michal despised him, he said, "I will celebrate before the LORD. I will become even more undignified than this."
• God had given him victory over all his enemies.
  
• God had used him to show kindness to Jonathan's son, Mephibosheth.
  

David was definitely on a 'spiritual high'.

Then suddenly in Chapter 11... in a flash... everything came crashing down. What in the world went down there? Well, to put it simply, the devil was after David. He didn't like the idea of David being sold out to God. So he decided to keep David busy with something else. What David didn't realise was that Satan was out to get him and so he gave in.

If you are soaring on wings like eagles, be sure the devil is out to get you. He doesn't care about Christians who live defeated anyway. He's after you. He prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

So be on high alert! Resist him, standing firm in the faith... And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast! (1 Peter 5: 9-10)