HOW FAR HAVE WE FALLEN?

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
“You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman, “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then their eyes of both of them were opened and they realized they were naked: so they sewed fig leaves together and made covering for themselves.

Genesis 3:1-7

The passage above shows just how deceitful Satan is, and how he knows our every weakness and uses that against us every day to separate us from God. For he knew the first husband and wife wanted to be closer to God so he deceived them into thinking that if they ate the fruit it would bring them closer to God, but all it did was cause them to be separated from him and the price for their sin was death.

How does Satan deceive you to push you further away from our Heavenly father? Is it money, Fame, prestige? Whatever it is the evil one knows it and he will use it against you. As God knows our every weakness so does the Prince of Darkness. God would never use it against us where Satan will, and does every day.

We must remember this and always be steadfast in our resolve to deny Satan the satisfaction of separating us from God. It will not be easy because once God gave us free will Satan has been tempting us every step of the way to fall from the path of righteousness.

Whatever you greatest weakness is the evil one will place it in front of you so there is no way that you can avoid it, and what you must do is pray for God to grant you the strength to deny Satan.

As I said before the price for Adam, and Eve’s sin, and ours is death, but our heavenly father has given us another way to paradise, and that is in the form of Jesus Christ.

I pray that God will allow you and me to find our purpose here on earth before he calls us back to be in paradise with him, and I pray that the evil one will not lead us astray from the path God has laid out before us.

Heavenly father I pray that you watch over all who read this message, and that you guide them to find the path that will lead them to happiness. I pray you block Satan’s attempts to make them fall from the path you have laid out before them, and to cause evil in your eyes. In your name we pray.

Amen