Job 1:9-10 ” Does Job fear God for nothing? Satan replied. Have You not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has?”

Satan accused Job before God by challenging Job’s motive.  Satan claimed that Job lived as he did because he was blessed of God and had not suffered or paid the price for God’s continuing grace in his life.  He questioned Job’s godliness as being just a means to financial gain, not true reverence.  The Accuser ,Satan, is always lurking around, contesting, shaming, and heaping guilt… but remember this – he is powerless to penetrate that hedge of protection God has placed around us…unless we allow him.

Ephesians 4:27 ” …and do not give the devil a foothold.”

The area of our lives that the devil is most easily able to gain a foothold… is when we have unforgiveness in our hearts.  II Corinthians 2:10-11 tells us that we need to forgive in order that Satan might not outwit  us.  When we harbor unforgiveness, we allow the devil to capture a place in our heart…setting up a position – a base of operations for further advancement against us.   We need to remain then vigilant…forgiving and forgetting quickly, so as not to allow him the ability to take advantage over us.