all things considered, I actually got a pretty good report from my visit to the doctor... my sugar was fine... no one was using the "D-word" this time... you know... the sugar problem word... diabetes... the first time it was used was back in March at my last visit when my sugar was on the high side... this time the word was "fine"...and the blood pressure was still decent... no protein problems either... and he was very pleased with my weight being down  11 lbs. since last time...

None of that bothers the hook!  The enemy is always there jerking away on the hook... usually it's some kind of fear thing... fear is his biggest motivator... wants me to start worrying... fretting...stewing... with all the wrong "what ifs" flying around thru my head... especially the biggest lie... "you are not gonna make it this time, big fella.... it's heart attack and stroke time... you are dead meat.."

What he wants to accomplish... the enemies' goals... are to... steal... kill... destroy...

He lies to us all the time in order to steal our peace... our joy... our truth... to kill us physically...emotionally... spiritually... to destroy everything God has created and called good... he is a liar and deceiver.. and every lie he throws at us... every hook he jerks...we need to reject...

I cannot reject A-fib... I cannot reject the circumstances of my life... I cannot demand that God change them... I cannot pretend that bad things don't happen to Christians... but... I can reject the lie that tells me bad things aren't supposed to happen to Christians... that they do happen only because I am in sin... or I just don't have the faith...or because I am a failure to God and He is mad at me... or He just plain doesn't love me any more... I can reject all the lies that come...about why these things happen... and what a terrible person I am... which somehow has caused this 'whatever thing' to happen....

I can  "take no thought for tomorrow"... I can learn to live above any circumstance... I can learn to have much or have little... to be on the top or at the bottom... and discover that none of it really matters.... only Jesus matters... and my relationship with Him... the circumstances are in His hands... not mine... I control nothing...

the enemy has many hooks... many deceptions... we have much to learn!