The Stalker
I lived my sophomore year in college in a large apartment complex. One evening when my roommate was gone, an “acquaintance” of hers called, saying she had asked him to call her if ever he were in town. His calls continued for weeks, always when she was out 
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With each call he would chat longer and longer with me. One night after I went to bed, and when she was gone for the weekend, the phone rang and it was him. With the lights off inside, and the parking lot lights shining outside my first-floor apartment, I could see through the mini-blinds a male figure standing in the small shrubs directly outside my bedroom window – appearing to hold a phone to his left ear.
My heart raced wildly as I realized it was likely him 
. I tried to keep chatting calmly as if I knew nothing, while I walked through the darkened apartment checking to ensure all the windows were closed and doors were locked. Then I lied and said I had to go because I was expecting my boyfriend to come over any minute. I hung up and immediately called the guys who lived upstairs to come to my aid 
. The figure took off within moments. Next, I called 911 and filed a report.
Two days later, I emerged from a restaurant to find threatening words scratched into the paint on my car . That afternoon at my apartment, while a policeman was questioning me, the stalker called to curse me for having called the police there. The police began patrolling my parking lot every hour from dusk till dawn 
. Shortly thereafter I found a new apartment – on the third floor this time 
The police had a suspect in mind. A middle-aged man who had begun working at the college was believed responsible for several stalking reports, but the police didn’t have proof. Some of the girls fared worse than I, suffering brief molestation. Then, tragically, one of the girls disappeared and was found drown in a nearby river 
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The handful of us being stalked had one thing in common: how we looked. We each had the same build, similar features, and the same coloring. Evidently, our “look” resembled the man’s ex-wife. She had left him years before because he was abusive . She remarried … and her new husband mysteriously drowned in that same river . At the end of the semester, I moved completely out of town, never to be bothered by the stalker again 
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It’s terrifying to have a stalker – you can’t really see him and you’re not exactly sure what he intends to do to you, but you know he is there and that his intentions are not good. Unfortunately, I have another stalker, and according to the Bible, you do too
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” (1 Peter 5:8). Jesus contrasts His loving intentions for us with the devil’s murderous intentions for us in John 10:10: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” 
I spent several months being stalked, and could possibly have been killed, simply because I looked like someone else . Did you know that Satan stalks us because of who we look like 
Satan is seething with hatred for God and His Son, Jesus. He would destroy Them if only he could, but he has no power over Them.
You and I “look” just like Them. In Genesis 1:26 God said, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” You and I’ve been given the very likeness of God, as well as dominion over this earth, and that makes us a target worth stalking in Satan’s eyes 
We need not fear, however, because this stalker is already defeated. When we place our trust in Jesus Christ and call upon His Name, we come under God’s banner and the devil has no power over us there 
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In James 4:7, the Bible assures that when we place ourselves under God’s authority – under His banner or badge – we will be able to resist the devil, and the devil will run from us. That’s just one of the many ways Jesus gives us life in all its fullness .
By: Rachel Olsen, Crosswalk.com
