to spiritual attack as we are close to Him. Because the enemy knows it is our nearness to God that produces our strength, the first stage of his attack involves a preliminary deception that makes us feel as if we are cut off from Christ. The moment we accept this illusion of detachment, the devil is disarming us. Yet it takes little more than our passive acceptance to keep us trapped. Passivity does not feel like sin; it does not specifically violate any of the Ten Commandments. Its deception is more