I thought this was a really good perspective. No one wants to be subject to demonic attack. But if you are worthy of that kind of attention, you must be doing something right to serve Christ’s Kingdom.

Scott Murray writes: “When Satan attacks us, we should be flattered that we are worth attacking. Those who are already in his camp do not need to feel his claws. But when he attempts to defeat us, he often finds himself facing a serious counterattack from the Word of God… [Remember Paul’s words in Roman8:35 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution…? In other words nothing can, Satan has no chance with us when we turn to Christ in the Holy Spirit.]

Jesus said I am the Way the Truth, the Life, no one comes to the Father except through me. I think that also means, no one comes to His child, except through Him, He is the infinite linebacker.

…When we suffer such humiliations as Satan and his minions can throw at us, we should glory in them, for they are signs of the strength of our Lord’s cross, even as they were for Paul…

Certainly St Paul was continually under Satanic attack. John Chrysostom writes: “…He was imprisoned at Jerusalem, and preaching in his bonds he struck the king with amazement and made the governor tremble. For being afraid, it is related, he let him go. He that had bond him was not ashamed to receive instruction concerning the things to come at the hands of him whom he had bound. In bonds he sailed, and retrieved the wreck, bound fast the tempest. It was when he was in bonds that the viper fastened on him and fell off from his hand, having done him no hurt. He was bound at Rome, and preaching in bonds drew thousands to his cause, holding forward, in the place of very other, this very argument, by which I mean his chain.” (Homilies on Ephesians, 8).

(Scott Murray, A Year with the Church Fathers, pp 246-247