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Tonight I'm Going to Dance for the Devil

You’re smart you know that? I’m smart too! We’re all very smart. If someone was to perform some sort of cranial surgery on us and took our brains out to weigh and examine them, they would find that our brains weigh a KILLATON because we’re that damn smart. And at the lovely age you are now, you should be able to use your brain to know the difference between right and wrong. Right?

I don’t know about you but I know that it’s fairly easy to look at a situation someone ELSE is in and decide whether they handled themselves RIGHT OR WRONG. Yet, what happens when I’m in a similar situation? How do I handle myself? 99.9% of the time I can say with confidence that I have made the right decision in sticky situations. That infamous .01% though…CHILE BOOM, I have told myself, “Tonight I’m going to DANCE FOR THE DEVIL!”

And it’s not that I ACCIDENTLY make these WRONG DECISIONS. Every single WRONG DECISION I have made was INTENTIONAL, thought out, PREMEDITATED, systematically calculated, ON PURPOSE!


 ROMANS 7:19
“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;”

Would you look at that? That scripture was written by Apostle Paul. NOBODY else could have said it better for me. See, I wake up everyday with the BEST intentions. But I noticed that when I leave my BRAIN alone to think for itself with no SUPERVISION I tend to feed my curiosities with UNGODLY thoughts which always end with me saying, “Tonight I’m going to DANCE FOR THE DEVIL.” It doesn’t happen often though but when it does…..

A few seasons ago, when I allowed myself to dance for the devil, I flirted with men creatures. You may be thinking. that doesn’t sound too bad Tanzy. Yeah a’ight! These weren’t REGULAR men creatures, THEY WERE MARRIED and I didn’t care at the moment. I just wanted to dance for the devil and get a reaction from these men, for the HELL OF IT. (pun intended) I’ve done some God awful things to dance for the devil and he didn’t make it rain for me. He only blocked my spirit so that I could satisfy my flesh and enjoy the moment a little longer.

I thank Jesus for not throwing me under the bus because of my sins. (Cuz He sho’nuff could have!) Like Paul mentioned, “I don’t understand what I do..” and I don’t because I LOVE GOD with all of my heart but that .01% doesn’t. Are you struggling with a .01% as well or any percentage of yourself that wants to dance for the devil? Understand this, he only entices you to dance for him for two reasons, because HE KNOWS that there is a percentage of you that will GO. Secondly, he entices you to DISTRACT you from your PURPOSE in GOD.

So what do you do? How do you subdue that .01%? How do you shoot down the devil’s attempts to get you to perform for him?
                                        
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 

You have to STARVE that .01%! Make it virtually IMPOSSIBLE for that thing to THRIVE. Run from anything that could potentially awaken that beast. Run like you’re being chased by a zombie from the movie Resident Evil. It may mean you have to disassociate yourself from people, discontinue patronizing those old spots to hang-out, give yourself curfews, hold-up, SAY WHAT? I’m grown, I’m not setting no curfew! Ok dear, keep believing that you can play with that .01% around the devil.

I had to DO ALL of the above! Have I still fallen short? Yes but not as much as I used to. You have to be MARRIED to this LIFE people. No lackin,!  Set boundaries and gurd up your loins! God is a jealous GOD and you can’t be out’chere in these streets talking about, “Tonight, I’m going to dance for the devil!” You feel me?













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