Is God Cheating Us Out of Certain Things? (TMF:1177)

Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Peace to Live By: Is God Cheating Us Out of Certain Things? (TMF:1177) - Daniel Litton
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       And, here again, we see another way by which Satan works. He gets us to think that God is cheating us out of certain things in life—that God is a killjoy. He wants us to believe and see God as a mean God who just doesn’t want us to have everything good. But we know that God only prohibits something if it will actually hurt us, or if the time isn’t right for us. He says both “No” and “Wait” because he wants us to experience good life. And good life includes prohibitions. We understand that, in our current fallen state, we each have the sin nature, and Satan can play off of our sinful desire to want to fulfill all our desires, anything we want to do, regardless of what God has said. Now, he didn’t have that privilege with Adam and Eve, but he definitely has that privilege with us. Because we each have a fallen sin nature with fallen desires, Satan can try to play off of those desires.