The Father of All Lies

Last night during Bible study we had a good discussion about the god of this world. For those of you who weren’t there or who were there, but maybe didn’t get it, I want to reiterate some of the things that were said. First, satan is the god of this age, not of this world. To call satan the god of this world is to give him recognition and power he does not deserve. Yahweh is Creator and God of this world…it is His alone. He is the one who cast satan from the heavens and allows him to operate here on God’s earth (Isaiah 14). Secondly, we need to realize that satan is absolutely powerless over us. I’ve said this before, “Greater is he who is in me, than he who is in the world.” Then you ask, “Why is it satan troubles us so?” The answer is that he is the father of lies…and we are possibly the most gullible creatures God ever conceived. Not only can and does satan trick us, too often we so want to believe his lies! Finally, the question of evil surfaced, “Why would God allow satan (evil) to operate in our world?” Let me restate this carefully. Evil is nothing more than the absence of God. Just as darkness is defined as the absence of light, and cold defined as the absence of heat, evil is simply the absence of God. If you agree that we (humanity) were given a free will by God, and acknowledge that we (humanity) at times will choose options contrary to God’s will, then are we not the ones responsible for evil? We hate accountability and want to avoid responsibility, but aren’t we the ones to blame for evil? The good news is that there are those of us who do choose God’s will (or at least we try to) for our lives…and a little God goes a long way!