Satan's Strategy

"Satan's strategy is to get Christians preoccupied with their failures."

C. S. Lewis said that, and he was so right.

So many Christians, be they pastors, church leaders, ministry volunteers, or merely pew-warmers, focus more on their past than their future.

So many Christians focus more on past failures than on future opportunities.

God knows your past.

He also knows your future.

God doesn't want you to focus on your past. He wants you to focus on your future.

God is well aware of your past screw-ups.

Perhaps you lied like Abram, or lied like Isaac, or lied like Jacob, or killed someone like Moses, or committed adultery and had a man killed like David, or disobeyed like Jonah, or were corrupt like Matthew or Zacchaeus, or stole like the thief on the cross, or had multiple relationship failures like the woman at Sychar, or doubted like Thomas, or persecuted believers like Saul, or denied Christ like Peter.

God knows what you did.

He also knows what you still can do.

I was a lawyer for many years. One of the first things that they tell you in law school is that you need to know the other side's case and strategy as well as your own, in order to know how to defend against it and also to know how to attack it.

Congratulations! You now know Satan's strategy.

Defend against it. Attack it. Tell the enemy how you know and believe that God is not focused on your past failures, but rather on your future successes.