It was a suggestion.
That frightens me because I know how easily a lie can sound like my own voice. Eden began with a question, then the fruit came later. Distrust entered first, quiet as a snake through grass and the mind became the doorway.
Paul felt the danger when he wrote, “But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:3).
Led astray..that phrase makes me ache. A crowded soul loses sight of Christ. Money, applause, comfort, outrage and the little screen in my hand keep tugging at my eyes until the Savior who should fill the room begins to blur.
So I ask the Spirit to bring every thought home to Jesus. Carry me to the cross, where the serpent’s head was crushed. Fix my mind on the empty tomb.
The whisper is old. The tomb is empty. Christ gets the final word.
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