Powerful instrument

 Shared by Terry

"Whenever anyone sets his will to follow Christ's footsteps, that person becomes a powerful instrument of the light and thus an active threat to the prince of darkness. So that person comes under the harassment of the evil one who will do all in his power to swart and divert, tempt and seduce, discourage and destroy this newfound determination to walk in the light.

And God allows it. He permits the devil to try the determination of the pilgrim. For without this testing, the Christian's faith cannot be refined and matured. As much as he knows in his head that Jesus is the Victor, as much as he reads it in the Bible and hears of it in the testimony of others, until he walks through the fire himself, he will not own it in his own heart."  

~Peter Marshall