Under Attack?

"If you feel like Satan is attacking you, it's because you're allowing him to."

This is something a friend told me years ago, and it's been on my mind all morning. She told me this during a season of my life when I was super confused as to where God wanted me to go and who God wanted me to become. I was okay with being passive and allowing myself to slip away because I thought oh, it will pass. But now I need to reflect that there is a difference between inactivity and waiting.

Remember that this spiritual war is won by ideas and attitudes. So if my attitude is that Satan is attacking me spiritually, then what am I doing to counter his attack? Am I praying against temptation? Am I isolating myself from people who can keep me in my right mind? Proverbs says that a man that isolates himself seeks his own desires.

I think it's important for us to always go back to the basics. It's fun for us to discuss super in depth ideas but honestly, there's so much we will never know until we meet God face-to-face in heaven. But when we go back to the basics of just knowing that God is with us always, that He won't leave nor forsake us, and that He knows all things, we can feel more confident in our faith that whatever we feel we are going through, we aren't alone. That in the bottom of the valley, we aren't alone. That in the darkness, we are being led by a familiar hand led by a beautiful heart.

Feel free to comment how we as Christians must respond when we have this attitude :)