Deliver us from the evil one

"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from [the] evil [one]: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.” - Matthew 6v13

Nobody likes to talk about the devil. He is scary. No one likes the think negative thoughts and he is definitely a negative. We can take things too far and blame him for everything like a comedian did in a 60’s television comedy when he excused all he did wrong with “The devil made me do it.”

We do fight the enemy of our own wicked flesh. I think that is where most of our daily struggles with sin really come. We do face the allurements of the world, and part of the pattern prayer is that God would keep us from tempting situations. Yet, we must never forget that we do face the evil one.

The Bible says that he daily walks the earth like a roaring lion, seeking “whom he may devour.” Because of that we are to sober and vigilant. Even while we do all of that we must walk in absolute dependence on the Lord. Without His help we will always lose. In our own strength we fail, in His strength we win because “Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.