Be sure of this, my soul: The evil one,
whom God deems necessary to assign
to thee - the foe that thou must overcome -
is wicked, totally, by God’s design,
the antonym of all that’s pure and true,
the nether millstone ’gainst which thou art ground ...
Be sure of this: Midst all thou think and do,
he waits for thee. ’Tis by default he’s found!
Into his grasp thou sink whene’er thou let
thy focus shift t’ward darkness from the Light:
whene’er God’s Presence thou ignore, forget
and see through human eyes ’stead those of Christ ...

One Hope hast thou if life and peace thou’d find:
Upon thy Lord - on Jesus - stay thy mind!

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace ... Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty ... we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord ... "I am the ... truth" ... "the devil ... was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him ... he is a liar, and the father of lies" ... "His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the nether millstone" ... Leviathan the twisting serpent ... the dragon that is in the sea ... that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world ... Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist steadfast in the faith ... Looking unto Jesus ... Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee ...
Rom.8:5-6 (RSV); 2Cor.3:17; 4:5 (NAS); Jn.14:6; 8:44 (NAS); Job 41:24 (RSV); Is.27:1 (RSV); Rev.12:9 (RSV); 1 Pet.5:8,9 (KJV); Heb.12:2 (KJV); Is.26:3 (KJV).

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