Advent, Day 5, Satan is Foolish

There was no way to know as I wrote yesterday's post about Advent that just a few hours later, our country would be under attack again.  In a time when we are trying to focus on silence and peace of anticipating Christ's coming, satan is throwing everything he can at us.  He might win some battles, but we already know he won't win the war.  That victory has already been claimed in the name of Jesus and there is nothing he can do about it.

The strangest, most perplexing part of this whole radical Islam and extremist Christian situation is that they claim to be doing this for God.  The God of the bible is harsh at times and jealous for our affection, but He is the God of love.  That is what is missing from the Islamic faith and the faith of those who call themselves Christians, but do unChristian-like works.  And yet they are still attracting followers every day.  Yes, satan is foolish and thinks he is accomplishing great things. He is unable to see the big God sized picture of the universe.

Let's consider Matthew 7:21-27 (NASB)

"Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

Even as radical followers of Islam and extremist Christians kill in the name of a God, it is not THE God. They serve a man-made shell of an idea. They've missed it.  They have built their faith on a foundation that will never stand.  When the storms of life come, their faith will fail.  But a faith built on the love of Jesus, the mighty power of  the God of the universe, and the magnificent Spirit of God will always stand firm. 

My God is coming again in the form of Jesus to take us, the redeemed of Christ, home with Him forever and ever and ever. 

Jesus, please come quickly.  We are weary.  You alone are our refuge. 

Kelley