Recently, the Lord has been impressing on me the importance of discernment–especially between that which looks good and that which is truly good:
The enemy prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8). He comes to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). But, he also masquerades as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14).
When a roaring lion is after you, it quickly becomes obvious that you need to protect yourself by fleeing or fighting. When you can see an assault for what it is, you can fight back and escape.
But what about when the assault is disguised with light as help or hope?
There are many things wrapped up in alluring light–promising help, inspiring hope, inciting compassion and justice –that look good, sound good, and feel good. These things are cleverly designed to draw you in with their appearance of light. When the attack is not obvious and the weapons look, sound, and feel like gifts, insights, and opportunities…instead of fighting back and escaping, you might eventually find yourself sitting bound in the enemy’s camp–willingly drawn by the enticing “light.”
The enemy prowls as a roaring lion; he devours as an agent of light. Deception is where he shines.
But my people do not have to be bound by the deception of artificial light, for I have given you the weapon of discernment to deflect the glittering attacks. But you have to use it. The more you use it the more powerful it becomes, exposing the dirty light for what it is, overpowering it with the pure light of my Word.
Polluted light is rampant, a soft glow drawing in many.
My pure light is a laser beam, narrow, hotly focused–sometimes offending, always disrupting the carnal senses.
Discerning between light and predatory darkness is easier than discerning between polluted light and pure light–unless you look at it from above where my holy light outshines all else.
Be alert.
Come higher.
Discern and rightly divide between “light” and Light.
Received 3/15/2024
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