The Great Deceiver

Satan worries me. Not in the grand eternal sense (he’s gonna loose and of that I am sure) but in the sense that he IS the father of lies. I know how deceptive I can be and then I think that Satan has been doing this a whole lot longer and has outsmarted much smarter people then I. He’s managed to fool the majority of the world into believing that he doesn’t exist and he has fooled most Christians into believing that he isn’t as smart, cunning or concerned about me, my life, my thought, my actions and my soul as the Bible says he is. Man he is good at being evil.

The reason he concerns me is that even though that God shows me the dark places in my heart (and I know that there are more places that need his light of grace), I read about the temptation of Jesus in Matthew 4 and I realize that on my own I don’t have a chance against Satan. He knows the Bible better then I do. It’s scary to think he can use the scriptures to harm us, by abusing our limited knowledge of them.

Then I think about how Jesus shut him up after 40 days in the wilderness, and if my heavenly Father longs to protect me from this horrible deceiver and give me the power to overcome his lies, I just need to rest in him. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be aware of Satan. I think its good to know your enemy and in the end I look forward to the day Christ crushes Satan once and for all. Yeah, My God IS so big so strong and so mighty, there’s nothing my God cannot do.