by Sunday Akanni Moshood


God is a Great Teacher interested in the continuous spiritual growth of His children. Just like a mother nurtures her baby for growth, God gets joyous seeing a Christian become better and better in his/her walk with Him. God wants all Christians to keep growing spiritually, and He wants us all to aspire getting more matured in our relationship with Him.

God wants us to get to a stage where we become 'A Mysterious Christian That Confuses The Devil'. Who is a 'mysterious Christian that confuses Satan'?

A Mysterious Christian That Confuses The Devil is a matured Christian who gets closer to God irrespective of what happens around him/her. That is, positive experiences energise their relationship with God, and negative occurrences prompt them to stick closer to God for comfort and solution.

Satan brings up negative situations to make people distance themselves from God, and to go to wrong places for solution. We've seen and heard about people who, after losing a loved one or their properties, became drunkards and hard drugs addicts, or they begin visiting herbalists and satanic shrines for solutions.

However, God wants us as Christians to reach the place of maturity whereby, whenever any unpleasant unfortunate incident happened to us, these challenges would push us closer to Him and get us better in our spiritual walk with Him. Unpleasant situations can help you get closer to God when they influence you to begin spending more time with God in His words, when they make you rely more on God and have more faith in Him, when they teach you how to pray better and longer, etc.

On the other hand, many humans allows success take them away from God. We've seen and heard about Christians who backslided or became lukewarm after they got rich and wealthy. People who were once committed to the things of God, then after getting their heart desire (a new job, a spouse, a baby, a property) they no longer have time for God.

However, God wants us to get to that stage of maturity where any form of success would only energise us to walk closer with Him. When God bless you with your heart desires, He is only trying to encourage you to get closer in your relationship with Him (so He can even bless you with much more before you receive the Ultimate Reward in Heaven). You shouldn't allow your successes make you backslide or become a lukewarm Christian.

Now, when positive and negative occurrences gets you closer to God, you become 'A Mysterious Christian That Confuses The Devil'. This is because the devil becomes a confused man over you. He tells himself: "What should I do with this person?" "He gets closer to God when I bring challenges". "When success comes her way, she gets hotter for GOD!" "What then should I send to this person!" - satan asks helplessly. Hallelujah!

In the Bible, Job is a good example of a 'mysterious Christian that confuses the devil'. Job's wealth and successes keeps encouraging him maintain a good relationship with God, prompting the devil to wailed to God: "Job is only walking with you because he is doing well." And when satan brought up challenges towards job's way, those trials only pushed Job closer to God. The Bible said 'In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.' (Job 2:10)

Meaning, those difficult times made Job a more spiritual person (and that is when he was able to write those wise words which became a part of the Bible!)

After Job bounced back to his feet, Satan became confused over his life. The devil is scared sending another trial towards Job's way - he fears the challenges will only get Job closer to God. While Job continue flourishing, his successes gets him closer to God.

This is a stage of maturity God wants you to also attain. God bless you.

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