October 16

I remember taking Geometry in high school, and our teacher was describing how important math was to life (I guess some of us students were questioning it at the time) and gave the example that if you were to build a Skyscraper in which the math was off just a hair at the bottom that it would result in being way off at the top. This is a clear example in how Satan works in his temptations. He isn’t going to come at you full bore because we would readily recognize the strategy and reject it. Instead he gets us to buy in to just 2% of the lie, and lets the rest work itself out until we find our lives way off from the life God would have us live. He begins in the small things to later attack the big. Charles Spurgeon once said, “When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, ‘O, it is only a little one.’ Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!” Beware that our greatest deviations from God begin in the little choices that we make.