Don’t Doubt in the Darkness What God Told You in the Light. Genesis 3

Posted bySteven WalesPosted inAdversity, doubt, FaithTags:, , , , ,

When you hear of a terrible, unspeakable tragedy such as a young man I’ll call Tommy who took his own life suddenly and without warning, it should remind you that we have an enemy. YOU have an enemy. And you may wonder, ‘Who am I? Why would he care about me? I’m no missionary,’ or whatever. But Satan knows things we do not know. He knows what God plans to do through you. He may look at you and see a harvest of souls that will come because of you. So he plans to neutralize you. To steal, kill, and destroy you and your witness. How?

Lies. He will begin by whispering lies into your thoughts as he must have done to Tommy.

Read Genesis chapter 3. Here’s how he did it with Eve–and this is how he will do it to you:

1. First, he will make you question God’s Word–all of us have been attacked this way. He says to you: “Did God really say that? But does He really mean that? Does that still apply today?

2. Second, the enemy takes advantage of our ignorance. When he asked Eve about the tree, she stated the rule incorrectly. She was sloppy and unprepared for spiritual battle. She only needed to know one rule, but she got it wrong. (Do we know the Word? Are you ready to handle hard questions?)

3. Third, the serpent told her God was being selfish, that he was holding out on her, trying to steal her joy. “No, you shall not die! For God knows that when you eat the fruit you will become like Him…” All of us have heard that voice–those voices are everywhere today, TV, books, movies, Twitter–people everywhere are constantly questioning God and cynically accusing Him of trying to keep people from having fun.

But God loves you and wants the very best for you. He wants you to live a life of joy and hope and fulfillment and fun. But that comes by walking with Him, loving Him, and knowing His word so well that you can withstand an attack from the enemy. When your thoughts and the voices in your head make you doubt God or doubt His word, choose faith. Don’t doubt in the darkness of hard times the truth that God showed you in the light.

HE LOVES YOU. Don’t doubt Him. Give His Word the benefit of the doubt.

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Published by Steven Wales

Dad's Daily Devotional began as text messages to my family. I wanted my teenagers to know their father was reading the Bible. But they were at school by then. Initially, I sent them a favorite verse or an insight based on what I read each day. That grew into drafting a devotional readng which I would send them via text. I work as an attorney and an adjunct professor, and recently wrote a book called HOW TO MAKE A'S.

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