It’s a fact that flies are attracted to decay, waste, and fecal matter. They can sense the presence of it from a considerable distance. When they find it, they lay their eggs and when the eggs hatch they produce maggots which, when mature, become flies causing the whole cycle repeat itself. But what if there was no decay, waste, or fecal matter for them to lay their eggs in? What, then, would become of the flies?
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
(Jas 3:16)
The same holds true for the demonic. Like spiritual flies they are attracted to the spiritual decay, waste, and fecal matter produced from unforgiveness, envy, a critical spirit, rebelliousness, even stubbornness.
I may choose to think that such behavior is, essentially, harmless. After all, it’s not as though I were actually living in sin. Besides, that’s just my personality. I’ve always been like that. Everyone in my family is that way.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry… (1Sa 15:23)
Make no mistake, demons, like natural flies, deposit their eggs (influence, confusion, destruction) in the very filth and stench produced by such an attitude. And once satan gets his eggs in you, there’s no stopping the maggots that will follow.
But, when I, by confession and genuine repentance, cleanse myself of all such attitudes and behaviors, I deny the fly a place to breed and, by my example, threaten his very existence in the world.
…for the curse without a cause shall not come. (Pro 26:2)
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