“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:10-12 NASB1995)

Before I sat down at my desk to look at today’s passage of Scripture, I had an old song playing in my mind called “Earth Angel.” It is a romantic love song of the early 1950’s about a guy falling in love with a girl who he regarded as an “earth angel,” probably not in a spiritual sense, as the meaning of the term is defined, but more in a physical and emotional sense as someone he regarded as beautiful from the inside out. And yet…

“An earth angel is a person often described in spiritual, New Age contexts as a highly evolved soul in human form with a mission to spread positivity, healing, and love. They act as “light workers” aiming to assist humanity’s spiritual evolution through compassion and kindness. They are seen as earthly vessels for divine energy, anchoring light and peace.” (Google AI)

But this doesn’t have to be taken literally as some kind of supernatural being, but this can be taken more figuratively in regard to another human being who is spreading “positivity, compassion, kindness,” and some kind of healing (could be of the mind only), and a humanistic love based solely in human emotions. So, in a way, this is like taking the song lyrics and combining them with the “earth angel” definition, as a blend of both.

What I am seeing today as some of “the schemes of the devil” is to push “positivity” to the point of replacing logic, reason, and spiritual discernment. The “feel good” stuff is what is being pushed as something that is “good,” while much of the truth of what Jesus taught, and what his New Testament apostles taught, is being regarded as “bad, unkind, negative, and lacking in compassion and love.” And they are convincing many to believe that.

Are we to be kind? Yes, but kind according to God. For it is kind to tell people the truth, spoken in love. But it is not kind to lie to people just to make them feel good emotionally. And are we to be compassionate? Yes! But not to the point of tolerating and placating sinful addictive practices among those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, and among church leadership, while defining that as “love, kindness, and compassion.” Love speaks the truth!

But the devil has so convinced the masses that lying is kindness, and that ignoring and tolerating sinful practices is compassion, and twisting the Scriptures to alter their meaning is spreading positivity, and accepting sin as normal behavior is healing, and remaining silent and not confronting anyone with their sinful condition, and not calling for repentance and obedience to our Lord is love. So everything is being turned inside out and upside down.

It may feel good to the human emotions, but if we lie to people to make them feel good, and if we refuse to speak the truth to them, in love, so that they will like us, then that is not biblical love. That is selfishness. And that is definitely lacking in love, compassion, and kindness. For if they do not, by God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, deny self, put sin to death daily, by the Spirit, and obey our Lord’s commands, in practice, they are not “in Christ.”

They may like you. They may think you are swell. And everyone else may talk about how loving and kind and compassionate you are, like an “earth angel,” of sorts. But one day all the people you lied to are going to stand before the Lord in judgment, and they are going to have to give an account to God as to what they did with Jesus Christ and his message of salvation (deliverance from slavery to sin and obedience to our Lord’s commands).

And they may dislike or disapprove of us who are spreading the gospel as Jesus taught it, and as his New Testament apostles taught it, calling us negative, unloving, unkind, and not compassionate. But I would rather be hated and falsely accused of wrong for telling people the truth that can save their souls from hell, and that can assure them eternity with God in heaven, than to have people love me for telling them lies that will land them in hell.

So, just because it feels good and it sounds good does not mean it is good. Just because it sounds positive and not negative, and it seems more accepting rather than confronting, it does not mean that it must be of God. Remember that the devil and his angels disguise themselves as angels of light and as servants of God spreading his messages. So study the Scriptures in context, and believe God, and obey God, and die to sin.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; Acts 26:18; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Colossians 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Your New Life

Based off the Gospels
An Original Work / May 15, 2014
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Go and make disciples of peoples,
Teaching them to obey their Savior.
Do not fear, but go where He sends you.
Tell them all of what you have heard.

The kingdom of God now is upon you.
Come, and follow Jesus, your Lord.
He will make you fishers of man.

If the people Jesus desire,
They must die to sin and to self-life.
If they want to hold on to their lives
They will lose them forevermore.

Surely you heard that coming to Christ
Means a new life in Jesus, your Lord.
Follow Christ wherever He leads.

Love the Lord with all of your heart, and
Love your neighbors as you would yourself.
Preach the gospel to all the nations.
Do not worry what you will say.

Proclaim the freedom for all the captives.
Share the light with all who are blind.
You are ministers of our God.

Earth Angel
An Original Work / March 22, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love