Jeremiah 50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.

We have an enemy, that old serpent, Satan. He is a pretender to the throne, not a contender, a pretender. We know from the garden that he is the most subtle of beasts. One of the things that is easily lost on believers are the subtleties.

The tactics of the enemy are like but not the same as those of the Lord’s. Satan knows we cannot be taken. We know we cannot be taken. We are secure in our faith. Here is the subtlety, Satan does not seek to take us unawares, Satan seeks to keep us unawares.

The effective snare is the one that causes you to be distracted by danger. In Vietnam as soon as I saw something that caught my attention I stopped and looked immediately at my path. There would be a pitfall, a trip wire, an improvised explosive device of some kind to which I needed to find.

This subtle enemy knows the scriptures and knows the ways of God and makes this scripture a lie. There is no snare, Satan is not trying to catch us, Satan is trying to distract us. The thing that catches the eye is the distraction. He has flooded our field of vision with warning signs of dangers, so much so that we stop and look to eliminate the danger that does not exist. The distraction is the tactic.

Mark 8:17-18 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

Jesus knew, He is aware. The distractions keep us from seeking truth.