There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

if to say, “Who just whistled at me?” I look back and say, “It wasn’t me!” And then I point to the living room! Pets can fill voids for lonely personalities. There are times to be alone and times we must not be alone, especially when we are in a mental struggle. One of the sins of the ancient city of Sodom was the “abundance of idleness,” meaning an unsettled restlessness with nothing to do (Ezek. 16:49). Perhaps this idleness gave opportunity for the young men to spend time with the older men in the city whose lives had become filled with iniquity and who led the younger men to follow after the old men’s footsteps (Gen. 19:4–5). YOUR OWN PRIVATE WARS There are two types of battles: the one easy to win, and the one hard to win. The focus of the simpler battles is distraction, which temporarily pulls you from your intended assignment. Life is full of natural distractions, such as lightning knocking out electricity for the entire day, bringing your technical needs to a sudden deafening halt. Distraction is the hail damage that makes your young car look like it has a case of auto acne. Distractions are when storms push trees from their roots to rest peacefully on your roof. Distractions seldom defeat you—they do, however, delay you. Numerous distractions mentally drain a person, just like the continual words of Delilah to Samson: “Tell me . . . tell me . . . if you love me, tell me . . . ” (See Judges 16:6, 10, 13.) She pressed him with words until he was vexed to the point of death (v. 16).