Devices Of The Enemy: Distraction

I’ve been doing a series on the tactics and strategies of the enemy.  The is the third installment in this series.  In the first post, I talked about that the number one strategy that the enemy uses is subtlety (or subtilty depending on how you spell it).  Everything that the enemy does is subtle, cunning, crafty, stealthy.  His plans and schemes aren’t like “shock and awe” bombing.  They are like Navy Seals infiltrating territory in the dark of night.  The whole idea is to keep you unaware of what is happening.

In the second post, we talked about the tactic of pressure.  Pressure is used to get you to make a decision quickly–rashly–without consulting God or doing it the way that God wants it done.  Pressure is designed to get you off-focus and out of sync with God.  We talked about how the Pharisees attempted to pressure Jesus into siding with them in stoning the woman caught in adultery.  He easily could have–that’s what the law demanded.  The law was just.  But Jesus took the time to hear from God and refused the  pressure.

In this post, I’m talking about a third strategy of them enemy: distraction.  This is all-too prevalent in the U.S.  I saw a funny commercial a little while ago that, although being twisted in the solution, isn’t that far off from the problem.