Lent - The Devil Waits - We Must Finish The Work!

The prayer on Ash Wednesday, to initiate Lent, is the initiation of a spiritual war: Grant us, O Lord, to begin with holy fasts the campaign of our Christian warfare: that, as we do battle with the spirits of evil, we may be protected by the help of self-denial. Through Christ our Lord. Amen
  You can imagine that two things are happening together at Lent:Satan sees that we wish to follow the Master, and he seeks to stop usSatan sees his "more opportune time" [Luke 4:13] to come against us and t...