Isn’t that how the enemy works?

Life is going great. I’m happy and blessed. My days are filled with God’s love and grace. I’m truly living a life of meaning and purpose. I’m on a spiritual high. I’m reading my Bible and praying every day and having sweet fellowship with those around me. God is speaking to me and I’m listening. And he’s hearing me, my heart, my prayers, etc.

Then comes a bump in my road, a rough spot on my path. Outside confrontation and disagreement come. I’ve offended someone and that someone goes on the defensive and now there’s division, dissension, hurt feelings, etc.

Isn’t that like the enemy to throw a wrench my way, to trip me up and pull the rug out from under me?

Then my mind starts playing tricks on me. Overthinking, overreacting, making assumptions and making mountains out of mole hills, thinking there’s more to the adverse reactions and responses I’ve drawn from others. I start to imagine things are worse than they actually are.

Isn’t that how the enemy works? Getting under our skin with the ordinary, every day problems?

But Jesus has already gone before me and slain the enemy. I need not entertain the negative thoughts that attempt to invade my mind and rob my of inner peace, steal my joy, kill my hope, and destroy the foundation that I have in Christ.

Matthew 7:24-25 NLT
[24]  “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. [25] Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock.

https://bible.com/bible/116/mat.7.24-25.NLT