{"id":38911,"date":"2026-01-12T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38911"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:36:30","slug":"260113-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260113-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools of Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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How do we explain our stubborn hearts and conniving ways? How do we explain Auschwitz, human trafficking, abuse? If I were the devil, I\u2019d want you to feel attacked by an indefinable force. If I were the devil, I\u2019d keep my name out of it.\u00a0But God doesn\u2019t let the devil get away with this. He tells us his name: splitter, a divider, a wedge driver. Don\u2019t fault the plunging economy or a raging dictator for your anxiety. They are simply tools in Satan\u2019s tool kit.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t understand God\u2019s narrative without understanding Satan\u2019s strategy. Scripture says, \u201cThe reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil\u201d (1 John 3:8). God calls the devil by name and promises to defeat him. Be alert to the devil, and be assured his days are numbered.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Read more\u00a0God’s Story, Your Story<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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How do we explain our stubborn hearts and conniving ways? How do we explain Auschwitz, human trafficking, abuse? If I were the devil, I\u2019d want you to feel attacked by an indefinable force. If I were the devil, I\u2019d keep my name out of it. But God doesn\u2019t let the devil get away with this. He tells us his name: splitter, a divider, a wedge driver. Don\u2019t fault the plunging economy or a raging dictator for your anxiety. They are simply tools in Satan\u2019s tool kit.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t understand God\u2019s narrative without understanding Satan\u2019s strategy. Scripture says, \u201cThe reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil\u201d (1 John 3:8). God calls the devil by name and promises to defeat him. Be alert to the devil, and be assured his days are numbered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38914,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38911\/revisions\/38914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}