Spiritual Warfare: Overestimating Ourselves, Underestimating Satan
In the last post of this series, we looked at the danger of underestimating ourselves and overestimating Satan. Today let's look at the reverse: overestimating ourselves and underestimating Satan. (This will be a little scattered because there's several angles I want to look at this from.) While we shouldn't think Satan has more power than he does, we also shouldn't think he has less. He is the ruler, the "prince," of this world right now and has been given a lot of leeway (by God's permission) to move around and cause trouble. Yes, God is still in control over Satan and has him on a leash, but he's still allowed to cause an enormous amount of pain and damage (just look at the world around us, maybe even your own lives). So may we never be flippant about him or ignorant of his schemes and power. Here are a handful of verses about Satan/demons (what he's called, what he does, what he's capable of): Satan is c...