Check out this post by Perry Noble:  http://www.perrynoble.com/2009/06/22/dead-snakes-and-not-nice-words/

Here is an excerpt from the blog:

“I was in stride, had my ipod blaring and was enjoying the breeze while running up a hill.  I happened to look down and my left foot was about to come down right on top of a snake…..AND…I felt REALLY stupid when I discovered that it was dead!  (This seriously would have made an excellent youtube video!)…….As I continued my run I began thinking, “that’s the way that we, as Christians, respond to satan at times.  He’s basically a ‘dead snake’ that has been robbed of the power he once had…and yet we choose to scream and dance around him because we perceive he can destroy us.”

How true!  The snake is dead – now let’s act like we believe that!