Recently I was asked what my views about Lucifer are. This was an interesting question that I had to consider for a bit of time before coming to my overall conclusion. Lucifer according to the Bible was an angel who despised God and wanted to over throw him. Lucifer was known as the morning star because he was an angel of light. God created all beings, both angelic and human. So in God's perfection, there arose feelings of self-rightousness, self-exhaltation, and self-importance that Lucifer felt he deserved the same respect as God. He felt that he should be worshiped as God was worshiped. How wrong he was! Lucifer gained a following of angels to whom he convinced that they were going to over throw God and all His glory and get the rest of the angels and all of man-kind to worship him as they worshiped God. So, from a Biblical standpoint, we see that even though God made angels and man both, that sin originated in Heaven with Lucifer. Lucifer felt that he was righteous and deserved the glory. As for me and my feelings about Lucifer. He has many names, titles and associations. I feel that there is a being named Lucifer, and I believe that he can appear in our lives as many different conditions. He can appear to us as someone we love but can't seem to get along with at all, he can appear as a sickness or disease, he can appear as a disaster, he can appear as depression or mental illness. I think anything that we associate with being the opposite of God's glory is Lucifer. This can have such a huge variation on things, because each person is going to view God differently and what might feel like "Lucifer" in my life, might not mean the same thing to someone else. Evil does exist in many forms. People, places, things, thoughts, feelings, songs, movies, books and the list continues. Each of us has the ability to turn off these evil associations by simply CHOOSING TO NOT ENGAGE WITH THE THINGS THAT CAUSE US PAIN. Whatever it is that is causing us pain. The hardest part about over-coming "Lucifer" or "evil" is turning off our minds from the noise and distraction that comes with the things that cause us pain and grief.
We MUST BE WILLING TO LET IT ALL GO TO GOD AND LET GOD WASH IT AWAY. God doesn't want us to be miserable, but we have to be wise enough to ask God for guidance to be sure of what direction we need to take. We can't just assume that we can overcome Lucifer's power on our own. God is needed in all areas, but especially this one. Lucifer can even present himself through your children. You have to know what to look for and how to IMMEDIATELY turn to God and ask God to guide you and be with you. Evil will exist as long as there is an inch of room in your mind that the enemy (Lucifer, evil, pain, anger) can penetrate. Once he penetrates your mind, you dwell on the situation and than begin to fall down. Therefore, the enemy has been allowed to win the battle at that time. Than you have to start again with asking God to help you be victorious over the enemy and it really isn't a pleasant feeling to know that the enemy has won.
You might be saying, is it my fault that things have gone wrongly in my life? I'm not saying that at all, but once you have found God, God is there to help you out of the darkness and to guide you away from the enemy. Sometimes God allows "bad" things to happen in order to strengthen us in HIM. If we can gain greater strength and momentum with God, than Lucifer will have no chance to attack us, because we will be so in line with God that there won't be room for the enemy to attack you.
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