One of the things that’s been slowly evolving through my journey as a Christian, is my serious-to-joking ratio when I talk, think, and write about Satan.
When I used the “S” word early on, I mostly thought of him as a symbol, personification, whatever. And whenever I mentioned him I was about 10% serious and 90% joking around.
At this point, I’m about 60% serious and 40% kidding. I think that there are times when our own foolishness gets in our own way. And I believe that God himself sometimes tests us. I think it’s easy to pass the buck on personal responsibility and see work that Satan is quite happy about but actually had no part in.
But nonetheless my views are changing.
An observation:
We have about 5 or 6 bibles around. When they are at my fingertips, I read them most every day. When they are not, I might go to biblegateway.com and read some scriptures. Or I might not.
We are not the most organized home in the world. But we are all vocarious readers. I manage to keep whatever novel I’m reading around, which I also read just about every day. I love reading scripture, I don’t think I’m trying to sabotage my ability to read it.
So I submit, more serious than not, that Satan is hiding our bibles.
There was a time I would have thought that was the most idiotic thing I’d ever heard. Funny how things change.
What do you think about Satan? How do your differentiate between his actions in the world and simple human sin?
2 responses so far ↓
pastormarty // June 24, 2008 at 4:51 pm |
I dislike Satan and I think this is one of the funniest posts I’ve read today. The same things happens to me all the time.
jeffsdeepthoughts // June 24, 2008 at 8:24 pm |
Glad to hear it. (Both that you dislike Satan and that the same sort of thing happens to you.)
I just re-read the question: “What do you think of Satan?” and realized that you’re answer actually does apply.
I’d meant “What sort of entity is Satan? Is he just an abstraction or is he a real being?”