Spiritual Landmines

Introduction: Landmines prevents the advancement of enemy’s force. It will either kill or lame all those step in it.  Therefore, soldiers are to use the detector wisely before they walk on. There are, spiritual landmines too, used by Satan to, lame our walk with God and to destroy God’s will in our life. But, we are given His Word to diffuse devil’s landmine kept on our path. Let’s find spiritual landmines set by the enemy in the light of the Scripture.  

I. Pride: It causes damage to our spiritual life. It is the sign of one’s destruction (Proverbs 16:18), above all God hates the proud and stand against them (Psalm 6:17; 1 Peter 5:5). The powerful instrument to diffuse the landmine “pride” is humility (James 4:10). Let’s also know that “to be boastful of our humility is another form of pride.

II. Hypocrisy: It is another potential landmine to destroy our walk before God. The hypocrite has no hope when his soul departs (Job 27:8). They can do untold damage with their mouth (Proverbs 11:9). But, the triumphing of hypocrite is short ant their joy is for moment (Job 20: 4-5).

III. Unbelief: It is devil’s another sneaking landmine. Often believers are hit by it badly and departed from the living God (Hebrews 3:12). Faith in the living God is the only weapon to destroy this landmine because: "without faith it is impossible to please him (Hebrews 11:6). Except Joshua and Caleb others could not entered into the Promised Land because of unbelief (Hebrews 3:19). Let’s believe what we have heard (Hebrews 2:1).

IV. Indifference: We are often indifferent to worldliness in our churches and families without knowing its consequences (John 2:15-17). To avoid worldliness first, we are to come out of it. Second, let’s set our affection on things above, not on things on the earth.'" (Col. 3:2.). Third, we are to obey to what God says in Romans 12:2. We tend to be indifferent to the needs of the needy in our midst. Worldliness sometimes deafens our ears to God’s call for repentance.  

V. Unforgiveness: The landmine “Unforgiveness” is potential enough to separate the families, divide the church and to harm the harmony between us and God.  We often chose not to forgive others (Matthew 18:21) thus invite self-infliction upon us (Matthew 18:35). Therefore let us forgive others as Christ has forgiven us (Ephesians 4:32).  

Conclusion: Friends, today we are made aware of spiritual landmines which are potential to destroy us eternally. Let’s guard ourselves from them by the power of God the Holy Spirit.

Yours in His service

G. Paul Raj