Satan's Subtle Ways (6/16/2009)

"The enemy of righteousness... works in little steps - steps so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey, our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing." - President Henry B. Eyring

This is a lesson that I often share with my children. Satan knows that if he comes to us and asks us to do anything we know to be patently wrong, we will walk away from that temptation. If he can get us to do something that is not THAT wrong, however, then it is an easier step to doing something else that's not THAT bad; and if we are not careful, before we know it we will have allowed ourselves to be led to do things that we once never would have dreamed of doing. I hope that we will heed President Eyring's warning and be vigilant against the subtle tactics of the devil.