{"id":8620,"date":"2022-01-24T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","slug":"pray-for-the-easy-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8620","title":{"rendered":"PRAY FOR THE EASY PREY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got a reminder over the weekend that I need to redouble my prayers for my four kids, three at college and one in high school.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a theory as to why the teenage years are so difficult: This is the stage of life where Satan throws every conceivable temptation your direction. Alcohol. Drugs. Lust. Vanity. Dishonesty. Greed. Laziness. Self-centeredness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then he watches and takes notes on which sin trips you up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If he&#8217;s lucky, he finds a couple.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once he finds a sticky sin or two, he throws all his efforts into sugar-coating them. Makes them easy to swallow. One bite at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If he can send you into your twenties with one or two &#8220;besetting sins&#8221;, he can rest easy, knowing most of his work is complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So pray for the young people in your life. Satan prowls around like a lion, looking for someone to devour.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the young always make the easiest prey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a reminder over the weekend that I need to redouble my prayers for my four kids, three at college and one in high school. I have a theory as to why the teenage years are so difficult: This is the stage of life where Satan throws every conceivable temptation your direction. Alcohol. Drugs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8621,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}