I always use to think that Satan was bad of course,but that he just chilled in hell waiting until we died to mess with us. God has wiped out this lie so clearly this summer. The Devil is the ultimate deceiver. He can make us believe things are of God that are not, especially if we are not properly armed with the word of God to battle these lies.

The devil does not take souls for his own glory. Nothing is glorified in eternal separation from God. The devil takes souls because it hurts God. Satan gets a victory every time someone turns their back on Christ. He gets this victory because God is hurt. The devil is everything that is evil. selfish, greedy,and prideful. He feels victory when God is hurt because of his pride. That is why he will be locked in the Abyss in the end of days. He is too prideful to bow down and speak that God is great, powerful, and everlasting Lord.

The devil lies to us in so many ways. Every sin struggle can be traced back to a lie we believe. A lie that we are inadequate even with Christ, that we cannot have true intimacy with God, that when we hear silence after our prayers God has left us. These are all lies from Satan and no where else. They cause all kinds of sin constantly and there are plenty more lies causing plenty more sin.

It is scary that we an believe in such lies. Thankfully we have been given ultimate truth to battle these lies. The word of God is healing. It is Gods direct response to the lies we have been told. The word of God can squash out these lies and fill us with ultimate Truth. The hard part is getting there. When we are in a deep sin struggle and angry at ourselves and God it is hard to pray and read the word. But it is necessary. We may not want to but we need too. We have to want to want God more than we want sin. If we bring this request to him every day he can work on our hearts to make us want him more than we want to sin. I have faith that God can do this in our hearts.