Being suspicious is often seen as something negative. They say that suspicious people see poison wherever they look and can never be happy. I say the opposite. 

We are living an era where it is reckless to take everything at face value. I am talking about the easy come, good ideas that are presented to you.

You are in a financial rut and a ‘friend’ appears with a fast money-making scheme that promises to take you out of the red. Be very suspicious.

Your marriage seems to have hit a standstill and then someone appears who makes you feel alive again. Be very suspicious.

You’ve been feeling stressed and depressed and so are offered just one hit, to help you forget. Be very suspicious.

Your friends are heavy drinkers and you’ve always declined to join them, but life has been dreary and so you accept that just one drink will not hurt. Be very suspicious.

“But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.” 1 Timothy 6:9

Never forget that Satan is always looking for ways to set you up. He prepares traps and puts you in situations where downfall is the only way forward. He never tells you that the fast money-making scheme will land you in prison. That you will lose your marriage and family if you take up that lover. Or that it only takes one hit or one drink before you are hooked and destroyed.Satan presents to you an easy solution, at a time when you are vulnerable and most in need. He sets a trap for you and then the more you try to get out, the worse things become. 

I am here to tell you, that you can be free physically and spiritually from the snares of the devil. Don’t accept the easy come, good ideas; Be very suspicious of them – even if it is something that you have been praying about. God doesn’t magically bless you, or lead you to doing wrong in order to be free of a problem. He can and will set you free in a way that will not bring about negative consequences. That’s Satan’s job.

Satan sets you up just to bring you down. Be very suspicious.

May the God of the Bible bless you.

Bishop Joshua Fonseca