Watch for those distractions
Richard V. Milner
Feb 17, 2003

I have been fighting the enemy from a point that I have never seen before. Tonight as I began to write on this subject, my wife came in and interrupted me. What she did wasn't wrong, but the timing was. She didn't know it, but I noticed it. Tonight she came in to tell me something that she saw on TV with Jesse Duplantis. It was very interesting what she told me and under normal circumstances the timing would have been fine. But it threw me out of the state of mind I was in and I forgot what I was doing on the computer.

I started playing around on the keyboard and accidentally hit the escape key. This is a normal key to hit on the keyboard in fact many people hit it more than others. Well I had written about half of the other letter I was writing and when I hit the escape key, it wiped out my entire letter. It was a good one and the Holy Spirit was writing through me. Well it was gone. There was nothing more I could do. Angry tried to creep up, but I caught it from trying to do anything. Then anger with my wife tried to come in, but I stopped that. Then I realized that the enemy was the culprit. He sent Renee in to distract me and then I lost the letter, but not my cool.

Who am I blaming, no one. It was a learning point for myself and a growing point away from the attacks of anger. Do you find yourself in these situations? When you begin to blow up, do you blow up or resist the devil or yourself? I have done both, but lately I have resisted. Anger will get you quickly in trouble with all involved. So it is better not to let it get to you.

You know anger is usually caused by something happening and you can't even control it. Think about it. Most of our problems are due to uncontrolled circumstances. Why get mad at it, just say oh well and go on. The devil wants you to get mad at it. If you let it, it will get the best of you.

So when I hit the escape key, the first thought into my mind was evil. But patients kept me from taking the wrong thought. I slowed down and didn't get angry. I listen to the Lord and shook it off. Laughed in the devils face. Was it hard? Of course! We have been trained in our lifetime usually by our parents and their actions to get mad at something that they couldn't control. They did it and now it is a curse past down for us to carry out. But my Father in Heaven and His Word has broken the curse that was a hand me down. I broke that curse off of me though the working Blood of the Lord Jesus. Now when I get into a circumstance that should get me angry, it is broken. This is close to what I was talking about in the Multi-Level Evil the other day.

So when you find yourself in a situation that you can't control, what out for that first thought and temptation. Let it pass and reap the harvest of the right choice.

BE Blessed!
Richard