I’ve heard it said that, “As it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual.” Applying that statement to the displaced American victims of Hurricane Katrina, as its winds blew and the waters flooded, I cannot help but feel that the wind of the Spirit was ALSO blowing as the flood of Christians and potential world-changing survivors has now been scattered all over the nation.
What Satan intended for evil, God will use it for good. How can I be so sure? Because, throughout Church history – and even in my own life – we can see that the devil ALWAYS shoots himself in the foot.
Examples? When the Jerusalem Church was scattered through persecution, I’m sure many believers wondered how it could have happened. Things were so good, after all. The Church was flourishing and multiplying. Later, along comes this trouble-maker named Saul from a place called Tarsus. Where the Church was concerned, this guy was public enemy #1. Then he has a personal encounter with Jesus while en route to rounding up a bunch of Christians and taking them to trial, and winds up ultimately writing 13 of the 27 books of the New Testament. But right after Saul...