the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. Matthew 13:25.
No wonder that Christians lose their power and strength, if the enemy of souls find them asleep. How soon may he gain an advantage from without, if a strict guard is not kept within! though Satan seems to sleep sometimes, and we should in all appearance be in no danger, it is only his stratagem to make us careless. He never fails to be vigilant, and watch his opportunity that he may offer us battle with advantage; and who knows but he may gain the victory by those very sins to which perhaps we, for many years, had hardly any temptation. O! how cunningly does he work? how enticing is the world? even in lawful things, very often, the most dangerous snares lay hidden. A single word that we hear may be able to disturb our peace. One unguarded look is sometimes enough to infatuate our hearts. There is danger on all sides.
Unless the Lord opens our eyes and preserves us on all occasions, each of us, even the best, may still be overcome, and deadly hurt, by sin and the world. Satan is particularly busy to sift the godly most of all, and having catched them in his net, triumphs exceedingly over them.
O Lord, suffer me never to fall asleep again.
