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THURSDAY THOUGHT 5/29/08

May 28, 2008 on 11:52 pm | By John Ingrisano | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments

Fighting Demons

From alcoholics to drug addicts to dieters struggling with food addictions, and worse, I’ve seen people wrestling with demons that keep pulling them back — time and time again — from the gates of heaven into the prison of their own personal hell.  Victory brings fear of the next assault, like stragglers huddling around a campfire watching the hungry eyes just outside the ring of light, relentless and ready to move in at the next opportunity. 

I suspect that nobody chooses to fail, even when they make choices that lead to failure.  We all struggle with weaknesses, wrestle with demons.  We can tough it out.  Or we can give it over to God.  It seems to me that He is the light that can keep the demons at bay.

My point?  On one hand, be patient with those among us who wrestle with demons and sometimes (or perhaps often) fail.  On the other hand, if you are a demon wrestler, get God into the fray and make it a tag-team match. And rejoice in each day’s victories, even if it is just the victory of surviving failure.  — jri   

“When an evil spirit comes out of a man,
it goes through arid places seeking rest
and does not find it.  Then it say, ‘I will
return to the house I left.’  When it arrives,
it finds the house unoccupied, swept
clean and put in order.  Then it goes and
takes with it seven other spirits more
wicked than itself, and they go in and
live there.  And the final condition of
that man is worse than the first.”
        –    Jesus Christ
               (Matthew 12:43-45)