Spiders and Satan

Recently, I witnessed a group of college girls who were taking a harmless stroll together outside. I watched them absolutely freak out of nowhere; high pitched screaming like you would have thought they saw Channing Tatum shirtless or witnessed a gruesome murder or something. (It's kind of hard to tell the difference with us females.) They literally sprinted the other direction and took a totally different path than they had been walking upon.

I walked over and examined the cause of their fatal sounding cries and course change and saw a fuzzy black spider no bigger than the size of a nickel harmlessly scurrying along the sidewalk. It was definitely ugly and nothing anyone would want crawling around their bedside, but it was literally just ONE LITTLE SPIDER. I laughed out loud.

After being overwhelmed in so much freedom this last week, I realized something:
Satan is a lot like a spider. 

He's ugly, he's scary, he's intimidating, he uproots fear, he makes you feel like something scary is surrounding you and crawling all over you. He can send a group of people screaming in fear and running all kinds of chaotic directions. But look how small and weak... look how easily He could be crushed right under your foot. Look how LITTLE power He has over such a strong being as yourself. We give Him way too much power, when really we ought to disregard him, squish him like dust into the ground, and keep walking on the path before us.


That power lies within you. It's never been stolen or taken, but it's hard to see when you yourself have been trained in the lie that one tiny fear can destroy your courage and your future. It CAN'T. It can only make you THINK it can. The spider doesn't want you to know you can destroy IT with one simple stomp of your foot. What is literally just one tiny spider, our fear sees as a 20 foot shark ready to devour us. But do our feelings and perspective actually alter what lies before us? Never.

Stop letting tiny, powerless fears keep you from walking where The Lord has directed you. They may be hard to look at, they may bring up a disgust within you, they may tempt you to believe the rumors you have heard about them are true, they may appear bigger than everything else around you, they may steal your focus, but they are powerless. Go step on them and keep walking. Chase them down and squash them if you have to. They are actually terrified of Y O U. Go be brave because you were made to be, and something as small as a spider was never meant to be your end.

You were made to be strong; you were made to WIN.
You were made to conquer things far bigger than fear.
Refuse to let a monumental feeling overshadow the microscopic reality.

When you remember the power that is IN you, nothing can knock you down. When you can stand immovably atop the truth that YOU HAVE BEEN MADE STRONG, everything begins to look like tiny, weak spiders in the lens of your warrior eyes. Yet another laughable, powerless, tiny bug that you will gladly stomp out of your way.



Be brave, walk again where you were made to go, and reclaim power over all that has had control over you for far too long. That victory is yours. Go take it.

-Han


Psalm 18

I pursued my enemies and overtook them;
    I did not turn back till they were destroyed.
38 I crushed them so that they could not rise;
    they fell beneath my feet.
I beat them as fine as windblown dust;
    I trampled them like mud in the streets.