"Destroyed!"

"God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, He shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah." (Psalms 52:5) O yes, somebody knows that his days are numbered, and he has been spending thousands of years trying to alter his destiny; or to at least destroy the destiny of God's children. The main problem he has with destroying our destiny, is that God will not let him; once we become a child of God, no one, not even the devil, can pluck us out of His hand (John 10:27-30). We have got to realize who we are in Christ: we are sinners that have been saved by blood of Jesus Christ, and without His blood being poured out for us, we would have been lost forever. You better believe the devil knew what he was up against, because he knows the word of God; it's just that he does not obey it himself, but rather he likes to twist it and make up lies to contradict what God has said, which is why he is called, the father of lies (John 8:44). Regardless of what people might think, the devil has only been given the power that we allow him to have in our lives; if we resist him, he will flee from us (James 4:7), because ultimately, he is no match for God; he might think that he can do something, but we are the one's that allow him to come in and mess up our lives. Think about the instance with Peter, the one where Jesus told Peter, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (Luke 22:31); if it were not for the fact that Peter was about to deny Jesus, then Satan would not have had the opportunity to have Peter in the first place (Luke 22:34). We are the ones that allow him into our lives by the choices we make; the devil does not make us do things, we allow him the space to come in and spread his lies. That is why it is so important for us to stay in God's word everyday; if we keep reading the truth, then we won't become overtaken by a lie! Big lies are not the ones that cause us to stumble, it's the little lies that get us, the ones we don't pay much attention to; things like, who is Jesus, or is God real, we have no problem with those questions, but the ones that deal with our eternal security, those we are constantly fighting over...
"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth fourth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of His own will begat He us with the Word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures." (James 1:13-18)