Today 12-15-2020

James 4:7 NASB "Submit therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you"You would have thought I had the plague, the way they all left me! It wasn't long after accepting Christ as my Lord and Savior, that I began to notice my old friends seemed to slip away! Today's verse speaks to us about submitting ourselves to God and resisting the devil and he will flee from us! There came a point in my relationship with my old buddies when I began to share the love of Jesus Christ, sadly some of them didn't like it and I noticed that I was no longer called when they were meeting up. I found myself spending more time in God's Word, enjoying new friendships with those who also knew Christ but I realized that those old friends needed one thing from me, prayer - so I pray for them, that they will submit to God and find His Son as their Lord and Savior. The journey to follow Christ will not be easy, but if it was, everyone would be doing it! Remain strong in Him and follow where He leads us, it's a much better path and by all means resist the temptations of the devil and he will flee from us! What a great thought! peace, tom