There Once Was A Boy, And A Girl

This is the story of a boy and a girl, I think you'll recognize it.

After God has created everything and finds that it is good, He gives this command:
"You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." Gen 2:15-17

Not too long after we see the serpent, a crafty little bugger comes up and says:
"Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
That isn't what God said at all!

Now lets go back to Jesus' baptism, and temptation.
Something I think is worth noticing about this time in Jesus' life is that after His baptism God says: "This is my Son, whom I love; with Him I am well please"...then the next words spoken by anyone are those of the Devil, he says "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."

"If you are the Son of God"?...Wait...God just declared Jesus is his Son!
Does anyone else see a pattern here? I do...Satan will always bring into question what God has said.

Satan knows that God has a plan, and he wants to scheme one of his own. How often in our life do we find ourselves questioning what we know is wrong, justifying what we know is wrong, wrestling with what we know if wrong?

What if we just trusted what God said? What if we just trusted the truth as truth? What if we just trusted what God has said to be better, to actually be better?

So often in my life I find myself wresting with things that when I look back at them seem so simple. One thing you can be sure of when you are making a tough decision. (At the risk of being annoyingly repetitive) Satan will always bring into question what God has said.

Thats why we need to know what God says about us, about who we are, about what we are supposed to do. We need to trust what God has said, because you can be sure that doubt is going to creep in.

The real hope we have is that even though Satan has a plan for us too...God's plan is going to win out in the end.