Battling Satan With Love - Even When I'm Alone

When I'm alone in the dark, sometimes I fall into old habits of anxiety.  I start to get sick and then I say to myself "God wants us to fear nothing, He has the way to life."
Satan, the enemy, is the king of fear, but God doesn't want us to be afraid of him!  In my moment of anxiety I remember that God always gives us a way out.  What is the way out of this fear as I lie here?  Of course!  It's love!  God said perfect love casts out fear!

I have always believed love is an action and that action is putting other's needs before your own.  But how does one cast out fear with this love when one is supposed to be going to sleep?  My imagination and my mind and Satan in my mind is what makes me afraid.  At bedtime I have to be still, and that's hard for me because much of what makes me happy and at peace is doing and talking and being with people.  I mustn't forget that God comes in the still.   Satan tries to sabotage that and make me afraid of being still.

So I pray,
"Dear Jesus, always light me a way out of fear."  I started telling the Lord all the reasons I love Him.  I started thinking about all the people I love and why.  I started thinking about the things I love to do and places I love to go.  I prayed for the people I love.  I put their needs before my own by thinking about them and praying for them.

The fear was gone, I went to sleep and Satan lost.

The Difference Between Christ and Satan

We cannot live for ourselves for it is too easy to put too much importance into our earthly inhabitance and be lost to the king of the world, our enemy.  We can be tricked into living for him and he has many ploys to lead us to destruction.  It's easy to become self-centered, things that feel good and look good lead us astray.  That's the funny thing about Satan, I think he looks like this on the outside:

But his big, bright, fun, smart, comfortable, BETTER, offers lead us easily and painlessly to a place you'd expect to see this guy:

Once there, that's when you see what he really is and the narcotics wear off and we see what happened but it's too late.  I'm not talking about hell, I'm talking about the world and how we can die when we're still alive and we won't even know it happened.

If God's voice is a still, small voice, I think Satan's voice is like a lottery scam.

I think life is simpler than they say it is.