Expect the devil to attack where you’re weakest; Church Fathers: Day 302

Last updated on: June 1, 2018 at 5:35 am by Pete Socks

Expect the devil to attack where you’re weakest; Church Fathers: Day 302 2018-06-01T05:35:29-05:00 Pete Socks

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Whatever tempts or interests you the most, says St. Leo the Great, that’s where you can expect the devil to attack you.

We Christians have to be very careful, or we’ll be caught in the devil’s wiles, and go back to being tangled up in the errors we renounced.

For the old enemy never stops transforming himself into an “angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). Everywhere he spreads his web of deceptions, and he makes every effort to corrupt the faith of believers. He knows which one to use enthusiastic greed on, and which one to attack with the allurements of the belly, and which one to show the attractions of self-indulgence, and which one to taint with the poison of jealousy. He knows whom to overwhelm with grief, whom to cheat with joy, whom to surprise with fear, whom to confuse with amazement. There is no one whose habits he does not sift, whose cares he does not pick through, whose affections he does not pry into. And whatever he sees absorbing you the most, that’s where he looks for his chance to injure you. –St. Leo the Great, Sermon 27, 3

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

Where will the devil find his best opportunities to attack me?

What am I doing to defend myself on those fronts?

CLOSING PRAYER

Father, defend me from the threats of the evil one; for you have set me free from sin and death by the blood of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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