Are You Being Devoured by Your Enemy Who Is Like a Lion-That Old Devil and Satan? Turn To Christ for Deliverance! Now! A Point To Ponder . . .

Lion about to devour an unsuspecting Christian!

A Devotional for August 7, 2025

From the Pen of John Bunyan

Author of Pilgrim's Progress

Be Sober in Faith

Sculpture Portion

“Be sober-minded, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour”

I Peter 5: 8.

[The just are firm] . . . because the righteous are secured by their faith in Christ Jesus. Also, their fears stand upon a mistake of the nature of the covenant in which they are wrapped up, which is ordered for them in all things and sure (2 Samuel 23: 5; Isaiah 55: 3). Besides, God has purposed to magnify the riches of his grace in their salvation. Therefore, goodness and mercy shall, to that end, follow them all the days of their life that they may “dwell in the house of the Lord forever” (Psalm 23: 6; Ephesians 1: 3-7).

They have also their intercessor and advocate ready with God; to take up matters for them in such a way as may maintain true peace betwixt their God and them. And as may encourage them to be sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be brought unto them at the revelation of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1: 13; 1 John 2:1-2). Wherefore, though the godly have their fears, yea, sometimes dreadful fears, and that of perishing for ever and ever; yet the[ir] day is coming. [The day] . . . when their fears and tears shall be done away and when their desires only shall be granted: “The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon them; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.”

The words then, are a prediction or prophecy, and that both concerning the wicked and the righteous with reference to time and things to come and shall certainly be fulfilled in their season. Hence it is said concerning the wicked, that their triumphing is short and that the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment (Job 20:5). O, their end will be bitter as wormwood, and will cut like a two-edged sword!