Know your enemy Imagine you had been kidnapped as a baby and brought up by an evil man who constantly forced you to do criminal acts for him. After many years, your real father tracks you down, rescues you, and secures your captor s conviction. The man is jailed, never to be released. As he fumes in prison, his consuming passion is to execute revenge by tormenting you. Yet there is no way he can touch you.
Prisoners can write letters.
All other contact with the outside world is impossible. Finally, he hatches his scheme. He will write threatening letters to you, demanding you continue doing the evil things you used to do for him. He will also use false names to deceitfully become your pen friend and write things to discourage or corrupt you, or make you think poorly of your father, if you could be foolish enough to believe such lies. That s very close to the devil s dealings with you.