THIS IS WHY HE HATES YOU.
I love words. I am a writer so I am constantly trying to improve my vocabulary. I have had a subscription to the Miriam-Webster word of the day email for over a decade. When the emails come I check the subject line to see if it's a word I know. If it is a new word then I try to guess its meaning before I click open the email.
A few months ago the word was Luciferous. My Christian mentality immediately surmised that the word must have something to do with the devil. So clicked in fully confident that I knew the meaning. But I was surprised to learn that there was no dark meaning to the word at all. On the contrary, it meant "bringing light or insight".
The etymology being "light bearer"...lucifer. That was, of course, Satan's angelic name. As I thought on this I felt God whisper to me, "this is why he hates you." And with those words I saw it. Lucifer was not merely a name but a job title. It means Light Bearer. And Christ is the light of the world.
John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 1:1, 4-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
If Christ, who was from the beginning, is The Light, then Lucifer was his designated herald. It was, in effect, his job to carry the Light of Christ to all. Perhaps even to humanity itself. He was invested with a great and astounding privilege, to introduce Christ to creation. What job could be more prestigious? It would have been given to one dearly loved and trusted. The glory that would have rested on him would have been awe inspiring. So much so that light would have followed wherever he went. His brethren would have cried out "Son of the Morning!" whenever he showed up.
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
But in his pride and vanity he sought not to bear the light, but to BE the light. He became the Usurper, the Deceiver. Such a thing can not stand light, and in no longer "bearing" it, he is expelled. In being cast down from heaven he was stripped of his title. No longer Light Bearer, he is the Father of Lies. For him it is quite literally "lights out."
Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Now to whom is the title given? Not to Christ for He is the Light. The job of light bearer is given to those very ones who were deceived by Satan. The job goes to mankind.
Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Acts 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
It is we who are charged to let Our Light, Our Lord, shine before men. We have taken Satan's job and THIS IS WHY HE HATES US.
Matthew 5:14-16 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
The enemy does not want his job back. But it galls him to no end that we, we muddy little worms, have been offered his job. We need only apply and the job is ours. No experience necessary. In fact the worse your qualifications are it seems you are more hotly recruited. All of heaven sings with joy when we step into the job. He who was once the Son of the Morning, must sit by and watch us become Children of God. He who was dearly loved by the Living God, seethes with envy and rage as that self same God gives up everything and pours Himself out utterly to die for us. God never did such a thing for Satan...nor will He ever. THIS IS WHY SATAN HATES YOU.
The Enemy will do, whatever he can to get you not to apply for the title he was stripped of. And if you are already in the job, he will try with all his might to get you to quit. Barring that, he will endeavor to make you a failure. He attacks us continually. His weapons are pride, doubt, vanity and selfishness among others.
He has even gone so far as to change his name once again. A name more pervasive than Lucifer and more insidious than Satan. His new name is Superstition. It is a name born in darkness. It shrouds the mind and makes you feel foolish about that nagging sense that "something is terribly wrong, and that you are sure you were meant for something great, if only, if only ...but oh, if there is a God, He has bigger fish to fry than you." Superstition cloaks intellect in the shroud of what can be seen and touched with the senses, while the heart tells you incessantly there is a whole other realm going unexplored. It cuts out tongues that yearn to pray, it dams up tears of repentance with rationalizing and makes knees too stiff with pride to bend before the sovereignty of God. Superstition sends you to church but never lets church come home with you. Superstition sits quietly while you teach your children cute little bible stories on Sunday. But It screams bloody murder and calls you a self-righteous religious freak if you teach them to humbly live out the Gospel daily. Superstition is a name is to be guarded against, for with it he blinds us to his attacks and cripples us to the will of God.
Make no mistake you have an enemy. He is not the sole cause of all your woes, but he most assuredly revels in them.
As for me, I will no longer call him Lucifer. He does not deserve a title that was rightly taken from him by God. But neither will I be so utterly stupid as call to him Superstition. He is what he is. Satan, the Fallen One, the Enemy, the Accuser, the Deceiver. But there is no light born in him and he is no fairy tale. He is the one whose job I've been given. And I intend do it better than he did, because I know who the Real Light is. THIS IS WHY HE HATES ME.
A few months ago the word was Luciferous. My Christian mentality immediately surmised that the word must have something to do with the devil. So clicked in fully confident that I knew the meaning. But I was surprised to learn that there was no dark meaning to the word at all. On the contrary, it meant "bringing light or insight".
The etymology being "light bearer"...lucifer. That was, of course, Satan's angelic name. As I thought on this I felt God whisper to me, "this is why he hates you." And with those words I saw it. Lucifer was not merely a name but a job title. It means Light Bearer. And Christ is the light of the world.
John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 1:1, 4-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
If Christ, who was from the beginning, is The Light, then Lucifer was his designated herald. It was, in effect, his job to carry the Light of Christ to all. Perhaps even to humanity itself. He was invested with a great and astounding privilege, to introduce Christ to creation. What job could be more prestigious? It would have been given to one dearly loved and trusted. The glory that would have rested on him would have been awe inspiring. So much so that light would have followed wherever he went. His brethren would have cried out "Son of the Morning!" whenever he showed up.
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
But in his pride and vanity he sought not to bear the light, but to BE the light. He became the Usurper, the Deceiver. Such a thing can not stand light, and in no longer "bearing" it, he is expelled. In being cast down from heaven he was stripped of his title. No longer Light Bearer, he is the Father of Lies. For him it is quite literally "lights out."
Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Now to whom is the title given? Not to Christ for He is the Light. The job of light bearer is given to those very ones who were deceived by Satan. The job goes to mankind.
Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Acts 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
It is we who are charged to let Our Light, Our Lord, shine before men. We have taken Satan's job and THIS IS WHY HE HATES US.
Matthew 5:14-16 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
The enemy does not want his job back. But it galls him to no end that we, we muddy little worms, have been offered his job. We need only apply and the job is ours. No experience necessary. In fact the worse your qualifications are it seems you are more hotly recruited. All of heaven sings with joy when we step into the job. He who was once the Son of the Morning, must sit by and watch us become Children of God. He who was dearly loved by the Living God, seethes with envy and rage as that self same God gives up everything and pours Himself out utterly to die for us. God never did such a thing for Satan...nor will He ever. THIS IS WHY SATAN HATES YOU.
The Enemy will do, whatever he can to get you not to apply for the title he was stripped of. And if you are already in the job, he will try with all his might to get you to quit. Barring that, he will endeavor to make you a failure. He attacks us continually. His weapons are pride, doubt, vanity and selfishness among others.
He has even gone so far as to change his name once again. A name more pervasive than Lucifer and more insidious than Satan. His new name is Superstition. It is a name born in darkness. It shrouds the mind and makes you feel foolish about that nagging sense that "something is terribly wrong, and that you are sure you were meant for something great, if only, if only ...but oh, if there is a God, He has bigger fish to fry than you." Superstition cloaks intellect in the shroud of what can be seen and touched with the senses, while the heart tells you incessantly there is a whole other realm going unexplored. It cuts out tongues that yearn to pray, it dams up tears of repentance with rationalizing and makes knees too stiff with pride to bend before the sovereignty of God. Superstition sends you to church but never lets church come home with you. Superstition sits quietly while you teach your children cute little bible stories on Sunday. But It screams bloody murder and calls you a self-righteous religious freak if you teach them to humbly live out the Gospel daily. Superstition is a name is to be guarded against, for with it he blinds us to his attacks and cripples us to the will of God.
Make no mistake you have an enemy. He is not the sole cause of all your woes, but he most assuredly revels in them.
As for me, I will no longer call him Lucifer. He does not deserve a title that was rightly taken from him by God. But neither will I be so utterly stupid as call to him Superstition. He is what he is. Satan, the Fallen One, the Enemy, the Accuser, the Deceiver. But there is no light born in him and he is no fairy tale. He is the one whose job I've been given. And I intend do it better than he did, because I know who the Real Light is. THIS IS WHY HE HATES ME.
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