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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

About My Father’s Business:

A Lenten Devotional Guide

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord our God and serve him only.’” Luke 4:8 NIV

In preparation for one of the movies for our children on Saturday morning, I recently watched, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” based on the book by C. S. Lewis. It’s been so long since I read the book that I can’t judge how close the movie is to Lewis’ classic. I can tell you, however, that the movie’s depiction of evil was as good as I have seen.

At first the evil witch might be appealing to a child, but before long her evil self begins to appear. And the characters are vile who shout and beg for the lion, Aslan, to be slain. After the film, the children sat on the floor in the media room, and we talked. They recognized the evil and the subtle way the witch tried to trap. Most importantly they identified Aslan as the Christ figure who died to save the people of Narnia.

Satan can be subtle. He wants us to worship anything but God! He makes the vilest things attractive. He wraps himself in something beautiful that we think we cannot live without and fools us into worshiping it. We don’t recognize the trap as we long for “beautiful things,” sometimes until it is too late.

Satan promised Jesus the world if Jesus would just worship him. Thank God Jesus would not be trapped! Jesus had business to do, and he’d not allow Satan to be part of it!

Are we as quick to recognize him, to realize that a little sin leads to more, things that can destroy our kingdom work, hinder us from being about the Father’s business?

Father, Keep us from the evil one! You are our God, and we want to worship you and you alone. Amen

About My Father’s Business:

A Lenten Devotional Guide
prepared for First United Methodist Church of Homosassa, Florida
Spring 2010
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Coordinator