I'm not sure. I know I fear God and what will happen if/when I get out of His Word and back into the world. Then the devil could deceive me, trip me up and he is a clever lier when you don't have your armour on. If you believe his lies when he attacks your self esteem, or hits you with a temptation he knows is your weakness, then you'd better be afraid of him because you are out of God's will.
I don't know if God can protect you then if you are not into His Word and have not been in communication with Him in awhile. It's happened to me since I've been a Christian and it was harder to cry out to Him because the devil put someone right in my face and I could have fallen, but I cried out "Jesus, help me!" and ran in the opposite direction. Was I just lucky? I don't think so. I think Jesus just wanted me to call to Him and I intend to stick my nose in the Word now so I can renew my mind and feel God's presence.
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"Do not imagine that you must comprehend or understand it all before you seek and find it. For those who wait on Him, God will do more than they can conceive." Andrew Murray
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