The Sin Of Satan!
"All these things I will give
You if You will fall down
and worship me."
Matthew 4: 9
This verse is the key to
understanding
the motive of Satan and the origin of evil.
The devil desires to be worshiped as God.
Our Lord’s response
was, “Away with you,
Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship
the Lord your God, and Him only you shall
serve’” (Matthew 4:10).
We may never desire to be worshiped as
God, but that’s at the heart of the
attitude
of pride that drives much of what we think
and do.
God desires our humility. We’re to serve
the Lord with all humility (Acts 20:19),
putting on “tender mercies,
kindness,
humility, meekness, longsuffering”
(Colossians 3:12).
Every day resist Satan by
living
in humble obedience to our one,
great, true God.
"All the cunning of the
devil
is exercised in trying to tear
us away from the Word."
Martin Luther