Do You Know Who You Are Keeping Company With?

Do You Know Who You Are Keeping Company With?

Eileen Renders

   This is a subject that is truly one that can keep us on our toes. Not often do I allow myself the company of being in the company of the Evil one. But I am here today to validate how smart he really is. Thus, they call him cunning and baffling, and rightly so.

   For example, whenever I hear him whisper thoughts into my brain that is against my better judgment, and beliefs, I quickly go to Jesus and ask His help to keep him away from me as I despise him and want nothing to do with him.

   Last week it was very cold here where we live as it was in many other areas. However, with 33 degrees and some icy road conditions, I was determined that if I could food shop, or do whatever else I needed to do, I could go to church and nothing would keep me away from being with Christ and receiving Him body and blood into my body, heart, mind, and soul. Today as I folded some laundry, I heard it could be colder this weekend. That is when I realized I was thinking to myself; “Well if it gets colder this Sunday, I will do Mass on EWTN. I sort of, turned my head as I went back over that thought again. Remembering what I had told my husband last Sunday about not missing Mass, it suddenly occurred to me that this had not be a thought that I wanted to contemplate at all, it was the Evil one.

   He is subtle and produces a thought that sounds a bit comforting but is not our thought or decision. It took me a minute half a minute, however, to realize that is not what I planned on doing, and who it was that was trying to trick and tempt me.

   Remaining close to God, I am much more able to detect his sly attempts to trick me, and always, I pray; “Jesus, please know that I do not want to allow him the opportunity to get into my thoughts, help me keep him away Jesus, as I belong to you.”

   Another way he tries to keep us away from God is by attempting to have us believe we produced the thoughts that we actually, oppose. In this way, he opens the door to guilty feelings that can often keep us from God because we feel we are not worthy to be in His presence.