I will confess that there are times when it feels like the devil is winning a battle.

Where those who rob you seem to get blessings. Where integrity doesn’t seem to be honored but the lack thereof is. Where alliances are formed in a hidden deception simply because it serves a need.

You’ll often feel like you’ve been used or abused by those who claim Christ as Savior. Many want the blessings that flow out of you but don’t really stand with you. It’s not the people as much as it is the enemy orchestrating plots to wound you with his own wickedness.

I’ve felt conviction many a time to step back when I see the enemy holding the reins. When in the Spirit I can see he now has a control. I’ve had to choose not to partner with him.

It can be hard to watch and hard to stomach.

You may feel at times God has abandoned you in your decision to live righteously, honor well others, and to abstain from all forms of darkness.

It’s in these times that you must remember God has written an account on your behalf. He has taken notes on your decisions to walk holy. To say, “No” to the little foxes that spoil the vine.

He has watched you be faithful in the midst of the battle whereby many will satisfy their own flesh.

God has seen you plowing the field and constantly blessing those who curse you. Blessing those who spitefully use you.

Yes, it can seem like the devil is winning.

But there always comes a day of recompense and the humble are indeed rewarded by Christ Himself.

Set your mind to let the arrows fly right by you. Don’t get distracted, friends even if you hear the devil’s laughter as he rewards unfaithfulness with what seems like blessings. Even when he has found a way to slight you….

Be certain that the Holy One will have the last say.

Romans 8:31-39 NKJV

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.