I grew up on a farm in the Saskatchewan prairies, a land of hot summers and frigid cold winters. I was blessed to experience the awesome sunsets and evening northern lights in their entire splendor. The sky would dance like a great symphony, colors of blues, purple, turquoise and magenta. The movements were spectacular and at times seemed to encompass about like a hand from the heavens. I had an aunt named, Rose. A warm plump lady with rosy red cheeks and a smile that never seemed to leave. She was a woman of scary stories and had a way of capturing my imagination to the wee hours of the night. In one of my experiences she shared a story of a lady who would whistle to the northern lights and claimed they would dance for her. One night the lady whistled for hours and eventually the lights came down and supposedly shocked her to death. Of course the tale of her death would bring fear and etch Aunt Rose's story deeper into the soul of my memory. Not a comforting fable for a young lad, but for this reason every time I would get before the northern lights, I would whistle and test how far I could push them. And at times they really seemed to come closer and closer and the hair would stand on the back of my neck. Now we all know this was a myth but it was effective in keeping me in her stories. In God's church there are also many fables and myths, one is that the devil or Satan is an all powerful, omnipresent being. At times treated with respect more then God Himself. The mind is a powerful thing and once we accept certain beliefs the mind will always seek to prove it is true. Once the mind accepts something as truth, it will start the process of selective hearing. When this happens we stop seeing things as they are and try to verify what we have already chosen as truth. In other words the mind becomes a filtering system that only allows us to see things from what we perceive. As a believer we must be honest to consider our beliefs and admit that we are not always right. And in order to change our mind, we renew it by the Word of God. So it is with our belief in the Satan. This writing will destroy the myth that Satan is stronger then us. And that as we begin to understand our position and the power of Christ within, we will begin to walk out from under the bondage of darkness and put Satan under our feet.
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