In the spiritual realm, a kind of stealing is going on in many lives. Satan is in the business of ripping us off. But he is very interested in stealing spiritual treasures things that have value with God and are of eternal significance. Take, for example, our very purpose for living. Satan loves snatching men and women on the streets of my city and your city people who have potential and turning them into glassy-eyed wanderers through life, with no goal from day to day.
People turn to drugs and alcohol because they don t have a clue as to why they re alive.
Others turn to career achievement, or pleasure, or materialism . . . But it doesn t work. God created them to worship and enjoy him forever, but this awareness has been stolen from their consciousness. Satan s first move is just petty larceny. Once he manages that, he can move on to actual killing, and from there to mass destruction.