The Devil is in the Details

The little devil I found.We have all heard this lovely idiom, usually after forgetting something small yet essential and causing a huge problem. "The devil is in the details." However, I would like to take that thought a step further.  It all started when I found a snake last week. Yes, although insanely tiny, it was still a snake… Class Reptilia… Suborder Serpentes.

You see, I was being such an awesome girlfriend, and I decided to help my boyfriend with his front yard flowerbed.  This had not been tended to in over a year, and there were mounds of leaves and pine needles that had been collecting all fall and winter, plus the overgrowth of greenery and weeds sprouting all spring.  But, I had many lovely yellow and red flowers that I was excited to plant, so I got down to business.  Layer after layer of pine needles, another weed, and another weed… finally I was nearing the end.  But it was here, after all my hard work, that I discovered who had been making a cozy, little home under all that crap… the baby basilisk.

Yeah, right. What you will NEVER look like while gardening.He really was so tiny that he was easily scooped into a jar and identified as a non-poisonous snake.  After relocating him far away in the woods, this analogy hit me. The devil really is in the details.  Whenever we are really “digging” into our messy areas of our lives, that is when we find who has been hiding there.  And if we ignore those details, guess who is going to keep hiding there?  Keeping with the yard work analogy, have you ever looked at a thick overgrown piece of land and thought, “Oh, no way I’m going in there! Who knows what could be in there?”  And that’s just what the enemy wants… for you to avoid fixing those problems, to skirt around them, and to stay distracted by other things.  

Luke 10:19 - I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

The finished product!Well that’s not what G.L.A.M. is about, sorry to break it to ya! Just as painfully tiring as pulling weeds and getting leg cramps, letting God change us into good soil is a process.

Mark 4:8 - "Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

So are you consistently maintaining your “good soil”? Don’t forget it isn’t a one-time thing! As G.L.A.M. girls, we want to have beautiful flowers to show God’s glory through our lives. We need to constantly be spotting those weeds in our life… and snakes.

“Snakes… why’d it have to be snakes?”