CONFORMING TO HIS IMAGE

Ever have one of those days or weeks where you feel like you are the target of Satan's attacks? Perhaps your season was more along the lines of months or years. Often, we hear, "I'm really under attack". I know I have felt that way.
Recently, in working through the Beth Moore study, "A Woman's Heart: God's Dwelling Place", I ready the following Henry Blackaby quote; "In every generation there seem to exist certain clich�'s used by members of the body of Christ. No doubt, on the top of the list for this generation are the words 'I'm under attack!' Every difficulty seems to be labeled 'spiritual warfare.' Without question we fight wars in the heavenlies' but before we can be sure it's spiritual warfare, we must be able to answer three questions negatively: 1) Am I living outside the will of God? 2) Do I have any unconfessed sin? 3) Is God simply working His completion in me? Far more often, our difficulties originate from one of these three realms."
I think this is a good reminder for all of us to not be too quick to jump to the conclusion that we are under attack by Satan and his demons. Considering the questions Blackaby offers can give hope. There is something we can do about at least the first two situations. We need to get back on track and live within God's will and we can confess our known sin. If God is working His completion in us, we can be grateful that He is in the process of conforming us to the image of His Son. 2 Corinthians 3:18, "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Diane