I was listening to a message being preached by a man of God I thoroughly respect and I got a new understanding of the deceptive nature of the devil.
In the Garden of Eden, the devil tempted Eve telling her if they ate the fruit of the forbidden tree, they would become like God. That God prevented them from eating the fruit because He didn’t want them to become like Him. However, what they (Adam and Eve) failed to realize was that they were already like God as in Genesis 1:26 “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion …”. It was a smart and well-played deception and they fell flat into it. He offered them the counterfeit of what they already had.
The devil is still at it today, telling Christians they are failures when we originated from God, Success Himself. The Bible says in John 1:12 “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name”. So if you have accepted Christ as your Lord and believe in His name, you are a child of God and in God there is no failure, sickness, poverty, disappointments, depression... Everything produces after its kind: A goat’s child is a goat(kid), a lion’s child is a lion(cub) therefore, God’s child is a god (Ps 82:6). So in anyway the devil might be deceiving you based on the circumstances you may be facing today, rise up and tell him his game is over. You know who you are and will come to the full image of that in just a while.
I want you to go into today, this week, this year and whatever God has called you to do with confidence and full realization that you are a god and a child of the most high! As God cannot fail, you can’t fail. I once read something that goes thus: It all becomes beautiful in the end. If it’s not beautiful, then it’s not the end. So hang in there, my dear. God’s plan for you is to bring you to His expected end. Therefore, keep your joy up and give no place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27).
