How to Kill a Wolf

How to Kill a Wolf
“…but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged way and enticed.” James 1:14

Do you know how an Eskimo kills a wolf? He takes a knife & soaks it in blood and then freezes it. After it is frozen, he soaks it again in blood and then sticks it in the ground with the blade sticking out. The wolf smells the blood and then comes and begins to lick the knife. His is drawn by his own lust for blood. As he licks the knife, he never notices when he is no longer tasting the blood on the knife but his own blood coming from his tongue. He will bleed to death and the Eskimo will find him later.
This reminds me so much of how the enemy entices us. He can’t read our minds, but we give ourselves away in many different ways and the enemy looks for our own lusts and then tries to entice us with them and lead us away down a path that pulls us away from God. How many Christians are out there right now somewhere and not serving God because they were led away by their own lusts and now feel unworthy and useless. In Ephesians, Paul said we are not to be ignorant of the enemies devices. We should be smarter than to sit there and lick a knife until we bleed to death from the cuts of our own tongue.
If we are going to follow Jesus, we must take up our cross and deny ourselves and follow Jesus. The biggest thing about taking up our cross is dying to our old nature. You see, Jesus didn’t want to die. He wanted to live, but more than what He wanted, He wanted to please the Father. He wanted to do the Father’s will. This is the real message of the cross and what Jesus wants from us. He wants us to follow His example. He knows we want things, that we have desires. But more than that, He wants us to want to please the Father. He wants us to want to do the Father’s will more than we want to do our own will. If we are following Jesus, then the rest of our life we will be learning to lay our desires to the side and purpose to do the will of the Father in our life.
When we are doing God’s will then the enemy has no way to entice us with our own lusts because we have died to them and are seeking only to do the will of the Father! Let’s purpose in our hearts to follow the Scripture in James 4:7 “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and He will come near to you.”
Consumed by the call,
Pastor Marty