They Can Tell When You're A Follower of Christ
They Can Smell HIM on You
An Excellent read from the Anonymous substack. In my experience, he’s right. I’ve noticed you can read a room when you walk in. You know - DD
Have you ever met someone, maybe it was at a family gathering, a job interview, or standing in line at a store, and the moment you locked eyes, something shifted? The air thickened. A chill ran through your spirit. Their demeanor soured before a word was even exchanged. Maybe their face twisted into a sneer, or their words turned sharp for no apparent reason. And you stood there wondering, What did I do to them?
You didn’t do anything,
But something in you did.
You see, evil walks the earth. Not in the horned, cartoonish way we sometimes imagine, but in the quiet, watchful, waiting kind of way. It lurks in the shadows of dysfunction. It drifts in the corners of fractured homes and bitter hearts. It loiters outside doors where drama lives. It waits, not in a hurry, because it knows that as long as people stay distant from God, it will find a host.
And here’s the unnerving part, not everyone knows when it’s made itself at home.
Evil can live quietly in a person’s life for years, sometimes decades, whispering in their ear, fueling jealousy, resentment, anger, or despair. And because it’s been there so long, they confuse its voice for their own.
But then you walk in.
You, child of God, prayer warrior, light bearer, the one who walks by faith and not by…