KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Satan
HE PROMISES PLEASURE and delivers pain...
He promises success and delivers sadness. His lies are powerful and piercing. He touches men in their most vulnerable spot and during their weakest moments.
Satan offered Eve the incomparable promise to "be like God" if she would eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ( Genesis 3:1-5). Instead, she found tears, shame, banishment, pain, and death. Recorded for mankind is Satan's first great lie. Yet, men have consistently ignored this warning ever since.
Satan offers sexual freedom and the ultimate pleasure and instead delivers disease, death, and dashed dreams. He flashes financial prosperity and delivers poverty and suicide. His bag of tricks contains bright colors and shiny objects that tarnish with the using. His path is littered with the carcasses of individual lives, dreams, and families. Yet, Satan is lauded as the man with the plan by millions. No greater con man ever existed (Richard Mansel).
THOUGHT: Satan, though, is not all powerful ( Job 1:6-12; Revelation 6:8).
KneEmail: "Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you" (Jas. 4:7).