Is it warfare or is it discipline?

Christians often fall into a type of self-righteousness that reasons this way: "If something unpleasant happens in my life it must be Satan attacking. It must be spiritual warfare." I say "self-righteousness" because thinking that way excuses me from accepting anything negative as being the correcting hand of God. "Surely I haven't done anything to deserve this" might just be a form of denial.

In today's devotion at blackaby.org* you'll find a very good article addressing this misconception. Sometimes the bad stuff is happening because God is attempting to correct or discipline my life.

Bad times are not always a spiritual attack from the enemy. Sometimes they are the loving hand of God attempting to bring us back.

(If you go to blackaby .org after today you can pull up any previous day's devotionals by putting in the date of the one you seek. It's located under the current day's post.)