A piñata is a party favor beyond compare. Normally made of papier-mâché or cloth, it is usually filled with candy treats, then broken for all to share.
Everyone wants to be close by when the candy showers down.
The best piñatas are brightly colored, elaborately constructed containers that flash with beauty in the sun. They draw the attention, creating anticipation and excitement.
What is there not to love about the tradition of the piñata?
However, there is a downside for the beautiful piñata. It must be shattered for the candy to spill out. The beauty of the piñata is temporary, and it will end in violence and destruction.
Damascus is one of the oldest cities on earth. In the year 600 B.C. it was a glittering jewel of man’s success, containing a bonanza of material wealth.
What was there not to love about the city of Damascus?
Yet in Jeremiah 49:23, the sage prophet tells of Damascus’ coming shattering. She was beautiful, still, but the stick was headed her way, and her wonders would soon be scattered upon the earth for all to snatch up and carry away.
Damascus was a piñata of the most alluring kind, and Babylon was headed her way. Soon her young men would become faint, and they would fall in the streets, cut off forevermore.
The Babylonians’ party was about to begin.
Have we let ourselves become piñatas for the devil? We glitter with God’s success, and we can’t see the pitfalls of prosperity. We think the party is for us, when the devil is simply waiting to strike us hard, shattering our lives all over the ground.
However, Jesus is our bulwark in the time of storm. Let the devil strike his feeble stick, for Jesus has a sledge hammer, and when he swings at the devil, the devil had better get out of the way.
The devil has his eye on us, and it is vital we keep our eyes on Jesus.
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