Poet and essayist Heather Cadenhead publishes a monthly newsletter about her life as a writer and mother of two sons, one of whom is diagnosed with non-speaking autism. In an article titled, “The Road He Took: A Lenten Reading of Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken'” contrasts the Frost’s “fork in the road” with the temptation of Christ. It is a well written and thoughtful article and one section in particular made a perceptive comment on a passage that I recently had the opportunity to preach on, Matthew 4:1-11.
“It behooves us to remember that Satan didn’t approach Jesus on the first day of His fast. He approached Him on the fortieth (Matthew 4:8-11). Satan played a long and twisted game, lost in a degenerate scheme to stop The Unconquerable God: to plant a flag in the world created through Jesus (Colossians 1:16) and to enslave His created beings—the very beings that the flesh-wearing God was here to redeem.”
Yes, Satan played the long game with Christ, and he plays the long game with each of us. His tactics have not changed. The devil comes in our weakest moments. He comes in are most unguarded moments. He whispers a small distraction today for a much larger one three years from now. The evil one plays a long game for each of us and our Savior and our example shows us the way to defeat every scheme of the devil. Fight the good fight. How ever much time you spend in the word of God, spend more. The Word of God incarnate will use the word of God in print to give you the weapons to defeat every strategy in the dragon’s arsenal–even the long game of his worst design.
You can find the complete article by Heather Cadenhead HERE.
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