There is one question I can ask anyone anywhere in the world and they would all answer the same. Want to know the question? Who wants to live your life on the basis of lies?
Absolutely no one would say they want to live their life based on lies. No one likes being lied to, not even pathological liars want to be lied to! This one question and universal response explains a great deal more than you might think.
First, isn’t is curious all people everywhere around the planet, agree they want to live their life based on truth? This means universally, people prefer truth over lies. Or another way of saying this is all people believe truth is good and lies are bad. This then means, all people have an innate moral compass allowing us to discern what is good from what is bad. As much as mankind may want to decide for ourselves what is “good” and what is “bad” the fact is the standards of right and wrong have been determined by God–the Creator of all things. The same One who placed inside every human being the moral compass that causes us to prefer truth over lies.
I find it exceptionally interesting that we are all born with an innate moral compass to know right from wrong, and at the same time born in complete rebellion against God, who Himself is absolutely good.
What if this dichomaty is evidence of God’s love for all human beings? The fact He created us with a moral compass is what allows us to ultimately discover all that is good and reject all that is bad. Our innate moral compass is what allows us to ultimately discover God Himself, and then decide if we want to be restored into a righteous relationship with Him, or not. Being natural-born enemies of God is a condition all humans inherited because of free will.
The first man Adam, and the first woman Eve, were created with free will, allowing them to chose with whom and what they wanted to be aligned. Being tempted by the enemy of God, Satan, (who himself was once a high-ranking angel–a being God created also given the power of free will) they made the choice to reject God. Satan cunningly enticed them with questions that planted seeds of doubt, to question God’s goodness and conclude He was withholding good things from them. They thought they were choosing to be their own authority. However, by rejecting God they automatically serve Satan. Anytime a person rejects God, by default, they are aligned with Satan.
Satan was the first being to reject God. In fact, Satan wanted to dethrone God and be the supreme authority over all creation (Isaiah 14:12-14). In response God threw Satan and about one third of the heavenly angels who rebelled with him, out of heaven and cast them to the earth. Because Satan was successful in tempting Adam and Eve to reject God, every human being born ever since is born with the same condition of being natural-born enemies of God. And even though God has personally made a way for anyone who wants, to be reconciled to Him through faith in Jesus, not everyone will make that choice. Many people will find satisfaction with their natural-born lives and decide not to be restored with God. They don’t realize, but they are falling for the same subtle deception Satan used with Adam and Eve. They think they are making a choice to be their own authority, when in reality by default they are aligned with Satan, who is known as the Father of All Lies, the Accuser and the Destroyer.
At this point in the earth’s history, there are many more people who are aligned with Satan than with God. This is why lies and deceptions are rampant and most of us are unclear on who or what to trust. Satan and his followers, which includes other evil angels, and human beings who are not in right relationship with God, have made exponential advancement of Satan’s destructive agenda. Satan is the personification of all evil, who seeks to destroy all that is important to God. He lies to His followers who think they will realize wealth, power, fame, fortune and a variety of other promises from him. They are deceived into thinking Satan can out manuver God so they think they are on the winning team. Satan uses lies to control people. The devil will never be any match for God. God is omnipresent and omnipotent and so much more. Satan is a created and finate being, limited in all ways. In fact, God has already defeated Satan who in response is wrecking as much havoc and destruction as he can until his final sentence.
With this explanation of lies, manipultion and evil, I want you to consider the present conditions of the world. All the chaos and confusion is the work of the devil. People are waking up and realizing the gross advancement of evil. Our innate moral compasses are causing us to see a wicked and corrupt progression that we don’t want to be part of or subject to. People all over the world are rebelling against evil, tyrannical oppression, which is in reality the grace of God.
Would we who are natural-born enemies of God have come to the realization we need God if we didn’t experience the extant of evil? I don’t think so. And more, because of our innate moral compass, we have the ability to wake up to truth, to break away from the lies, and destruction and to choose a better way–a way governed by truth.
As always, what the enemy means for evil, God is using for good.
I welcome your comments and questions. One question you may have is “How can I be certain I am diassociated with Satan and aligned with God?” If you are willing to place your faith in Jesus Christ, believing He is the Second Person of the Triune Godhead who personally came to this earth to take on human form to redeem all who choose Him, and you believe in your heart that He is the Savior who was raised from the dead by the Third Person of the God head, the Hly Spirit, and confess with your mouth wanting Him to be your Lord, you can be utterly confidently you are in right standing with God the Father. Just as it was a matter of choice and confession from the first man and woman to reject God, so it is a matter of choice and confession for anyone who want to be restored in right relationship with God.
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