Foothold

Eph. 4:27 ...and do not give the devil a foothold.

Guard yourself. This is my message today. The devil is the great deceiver, the MASTER. Even those of us that think we are living our lives according to God's word can find ourselves moving in a direction we never dreamed. We must put on the full armor of God each and every day so that we are guarded against Satan's ways.
I got some unexpected and shocking news this weekend. I've been trying to understand or make some sort of sense out of it, and then at church last night I got my answer. Our Bible study was in Ephesians 4. As soon as the teacher talked about verse 27 where it says not to give Satan a foothold it hit me. God was giving me the answer to my question of how.
All it takes is a foothold. Just a foot in the door so to speak. So we have to be emersed in God's word in order to disern Satan's attack approaching. He's sneeky. Straight from the mouth of my friend that shocked me...."I would never have spent this much time alone with a man other than my husband." Exactly. Satan knew what wouldn't work and went in from another direction. Now he's in there and all that's important is happiness. "i'm more happy than ever, and i'm sick of hiding. I just want to be open and be me."
We can't say " I know what the Bible says about this, but it also says this, and this. And I'm happier than ever. So how can that be wrong?"
Sin is sin. We can't pick and choose from the Bible. I am definately far far from a perfect christian. I don't mean to sound self righteous. I know that we have all fallen and come short of the glory of God. The difference is this..... sinning is a human vice. As christians we strive not to sin. When we choose to purposely and knowingly sin by walking in a path that we know is directly against what God says, then we are taking ourselves away from Him.
There is no gray area there. God says something and if we choose to turn away from it we can no longer call ourselves Christian. Period. Because Christian literaly means Christ like.
I love my friend. So much. I want happiness for everyone I love. I think that is why I am so affected by this.
My prayer is that God helps me to show my love and most importantly His love in my actions. And that through that I can be a witness to His way.

Thank you God for your grace. Thank you for holding me in your hand. Thank you for loving me no matter what my sin. Thank you changing my life. Thank you for word to guide me. Thank you for blessing me. Thank you for peace. Thank you for security.
Help me to remember your word, and your way in every aspect of my life every day.