Who DO I Believe?
Why is it easier to believe Satan than God? Have you ever wondered that? Is it that the Devil is more trustworthy or kinder? Perhaps he is just more convincing?
I’m not sure what it is, but at least for me, it seems so much easier to agree with my enemy’s assessment of my abilities and my efforts than God’s. Oh, I don’t tell him that I believe him, in fact I do just the opposite, and I refuse to make an agreement with his lies. I purposefully set out to claim that I do have the victory in Christ; that He who began a good work in me will carry it out to completion; that I do not despise the days of small beginnings. The problem is: I don’t believe that.
Something deep inside of me has made an agreement with my enemy. On some level, I honestly doubt God’s concern for me and agree with the accuser’s assessment of my miserable self. Sometimes I excuse it as humility, explaining that I just don’t see that particular trait or gifting in me, but what I am really believing, deep in my soul, is that God would never use me like that. What I am really saying is that either God has no real use for me, or he is unable or unwilling to use me … and that stinks of unbelief.
So my question is still out there, why is it easier to believe Satan than God?
I will anticipate hearing your thoughts. Until then ...
To the King,
David
I feel the very exact same way. As a matter of fact, I'm in the middle of writing my way back to my trust/assurance in God. Well written!
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Thanks Erica, it is good to know that I am not alone!
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Hi David...just throwing this out there, but perhaps the reason why we are prone to believing Satan is because of the Fall. When Eve chose to believe the lie of the enemy, and when Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden, one of the consequences from that may have been this spirit of doubt that plagues mankind - hindering our walk with God.
The enemy of our soul wants us to doubt our King. Right from the beginning, this was the strategy of Satan. Sadly, it is one of the fiercest battles each of us must engage in (sometimes...usually...again and again
....Just throwing the thought out there...
Smiles and Blessings,
~mp
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that's very true. I believe the issue has something to do with faith, which has it's antithesis at the fall. Hope to write on this soon. Thanks for the food for thought.
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For me David, i have been pounded unrelentingly for so long I dismiss it, answering ya it's true I am slime, but in Christ I'm more than an over comer.
So many years of "taking subject every thought captive to Christ" I know I can here you say that's good for you but...
I don't know what to tell you bud. Part of me wants to say get over it, another part wants to commiserate.
We've all got the same battle, "no thing befalls us that is not common to man....
I had a vision of you at 1:29am 3/6/09 curious what's gone down for you
mark
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You know my spirit just got lit as I went back to review your comment. Ever the perfectionist back checking, but anyway...
I think the key through this is to answer satan's accusations from a different position. He's right we are slim buckets full of the filth of the world. Worthless good for nothing...so what...
Christ purchased us, died for us, We are buried in Christ, so we are free to live in him rather than our feeble looser selves.. Saten my be right , but so is Christ...life triumphs over death.
When I left Arizona I purposed to bury in the desert my dysfunctions...when I got to California I had this amazing dream. I was walking in a grave yard, I piked up a shovel and dug up a casket.
Your a dr. so you can see this one. I looked into the coffin this black, green oozing corps, been dead for months,I poked at it prodded it. It was me....I heard this commanding yet gentle voice say "why don't you just leave the grave yard" took some time but I just don't go there anymore. bless you brother, you are a king in the realms of God's authority... use it it works...
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I felt like it was just me that struggles with this....U 2 ? actually helps to know it's not just me..thank U for the article, suzanne kennedy
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Good post! thank you
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