Will We Be Devils?

 Luke 4:41

And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.

It ceases not to amaze us the fact that of all creation, the devils (angels who have sinned and are ministers of Satan, cf. 2Pe 2:4; 2Co 11:14,15) are the ones that so readily recognise and acknowledge Jesus as the Son of God, as the Christ, the Messiah!

Truly, as echoed by James in James 2:19 -

"Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble."

Where then does that put people who do not even believe in Jesus, or in God for that matter?

And perhaps even more sobering is, where does that put us, should we deny God through our disobedience and backsliding (cf. 2Pe 2:20-22)?

Yet, the devils were not permitted to speak. Perhaps it was the case of timing like even we read of in Matthew 9:30 of the 2 blind men.

We should also consider the potential for the abuse of that information. As it were, the Pharisees had accused Jesus of being in cahoots with the Devil (Mat 12:24)! What further evidence is needed when the devils themselves give testimony to Jesus?

Taking our thoughts a little further - if we have been reluctant to speak of God and His Word to others, it is because of our less than exemplary life? That even Jesus would suffer us not to speak, lest His name be blasphemed?

A very sobering prospect indeed even as we examine our own lives. We who confess and profess Jesus as the Son of God, who had been buried with Him in baptism and raised in newness of life (Rom 6:4), whose lives had been committed to Christ, should indeed live in Christ (Gal 2:20; Phi 1:21), should indeed not be ashamed to proclaim His Name and His Word!

Let us be not be as devils, far-fetched and horrifying  as that may sound, but yet all too common, when we profess in word but deny in deed. And instead live rightly and reasonably so, as godly creatures, that we be useful vessels, allowed and fit for His Service, that we may lay hold ultimately, onto the crown of life.