Yesterday I was called when at the apartments I work for there was a small waterfall from the hose connecting the washer to its water source. Water was all over the bathroom. In less than 30 minutes we had the water all cleaned up and fans down to dry the waterfilled area. No significant damage was detected.
After the flood, I went to another bathroom on a different property where there had been a crack in the tile and a small piece of missing grout that had been missing for years. Water entered into the floor a little bit at a time going undetected through the missing grout line, until one day there had dripped so much water that the ceiling below had start to spill water coming from above. As we ripped up the tile we found the sub floor in terrible condition and the tile laid poorly. The slow leak over many years had completely rotted out the floor.
God knows that his children will learn best slowly, line upon line, and precept upon precept, a little at a time until the fulness is known.
Satan, the corrupt copy-cat, also knows that when sin is dumped out and displayed before the righteous all at once they are more likely to recognize the hazardous effect it could take on them. Satan too prefers the slow unending digression into his evil paths that rot away the soul of many slowly and undetected until nothing but a complete and deliberate remodel could rescue the sinner.
Doctrine and Covenants 10:5 gives us our best remedy against the influence of Satan “Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work.”
It may also be helpful to remember that even if it ever appears that Satan is winning the eternal battle for the souls of men Christ has declared the victory.
“I will not suffer that they shall destroy my work; yea, I will show unto them that my wisdom is greater than the cunning of the devil.”