The Rat #2

Another rat lesson. I'm thankful God shows things even from the dirtiest creatures ;)

A rat that has been harassing my clean living space is now deceased.

That rat destroyed the wiring to my carbon monoxide monitor thus killing it. He ate roach and ant bait poison meant to trap/kill other things not him. Ultimately freeing them all to be free and infest my house. He left disgusting feces all over my clean cabinets. He shredded sticky glue traps that then stuck to my pots. He made me clean up after him, never killing the problem, just preventing the evidence of him being there.

If we think of this from a spiritual aspect, the rat is the devil. He likes to come into hidden places of our mind. He tries to not make his presences known but will leave evidence of him being there. He will sneakily trick us into allowing things into our lives that arent that big of a sin or so we think. This attitude then opens up so many other avenues of sin that will begin to consume our bodies and minds. That rat cut the wires on the carbon monoxide alarm that warns of danger. Sin will do that too, when you start ignoring the sins and living to be free because you think you deserve freedom (entitlement and rebellion). You will be free from God in the end, because sin separates us from God. The only entitlement we deserve is hell. Jesus died for our sins not His. He was perfect without sin. We are owed nothing but He graciously gave His life for my sins and for me to have eternal life.

Look deep inside your heart and ask God to reveal any known and unknown sins to you. I prayed that this week and then God showed me I had made someone like an idol in my life. I had to repent and ask forgiveness. Jesus should be the one we lift up in awe and honor, not any man or woman. Jesus is the light in the darkness, and He knows my heart and mind better than me. He is a good good Father and He will reveal things when we pray and ask Him. Pray for Him to show you the areas Satan has deceived you and has a stronghold over you. Repent when He shows it to you. Kill the problem once and for all and stop it from hiding in the temple of God.

1 Corinthians 2:9-16 KJV
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. [10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. [11] For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. [12] Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. [13] Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. [14] But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them , because they are spiritually discerned. [15] But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. [16] For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.