“1 Peter 5:8 ESV / Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” A story I heard from Dutch Sheets. A man was hungry so in his house he found a tin of dates. He picked one up and held it near the candle light, saw a worm and threw it away. He picked up another date, saw a worm by candle light as he was about to eat, and threw it away. Fearing he would go hungry, he blew out the candle and ate the rest of the dates. The message is – be watchful and remember you must take action in prayer and deed, when you sense trouble afoot through the Holy Spirit. One example – in the 1960s when prayer and the Bible were kicked out of schools, “who knew?” We should have seen it and stopped it then.
