Air of Hell, Breath of Heaven

In Matthew 6:9-10, Jesus tells us how to pray that God’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven. In a sense, He’s trying to bring heaven to earth. In Ephesians 2, we read that Satan is the ruler of the kingdom of the air. He deceives people into doing the opposite of God’s will. He creates chaos and confusion. His whole purpose is to pollute the atmosphere here on earth with the same things that await him in Hell. This week, we’re talking about how easy it is to get polluted air in your lungs — even spiritually. Satan is really good at this. He can lead us to focus on negative things and breathe in the air of Hell until we are in a full-blown panic. On the other hand, we see that Jesus never allowed what was going on around Him to get into Him. We must learn to do the same; we have to change the source of what we breathe.