Unseen Danger

 

I took my two grandsons canoeing Monday after school.  Nights are getting longer and days getting shorter, so there won’t be many more canoeing days on West Chickamauga creek.  I told them to wear old shoes so that they could get out of the canoe and explore the sand bars and mud flats.  Greyson’s old shoes were tight, and he wanted to take them off, but I insisted on him keeping them on.  The sand bars and mud flats looked safe enough to him.  What he didn’t know was that broken bottles and rusted tin cans were everywhere … just under the surface.  Trashy people throw stuff into the creek, and bottles and cans float downstream until they get hung up in debris or stuck in the sand.  They rust or break (cans or bottles) and are buried over time and remain as unseen hazards.  I remember cutting my bare foot on a piece of glass in Winter’s Run when I was ten years old (sixty-three years ago!). Hey, the dear Lord knows the dangers that lurk around us.  He knows the traps that Satan uses to try to destroy us.  But we can’t see the spirit world: demons and angels are invisible to us.  But make no mistake, they are just as real as you and I are!  Paul said in Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”  Dear friend, you are in a spiritual battle today.  You may not see it, but it is going on nonetheless.  Read Ephesians 6:10-18 and be on guard today!  And, as verse 15 says, keep your feet protected with the “gospel of peace”.  Look out for Satan’s broken bottles and rusted tin cans!  Look out for Satan’s trash!