Satan Has Been Right All Along

Leviticus has proven to me how right Satan has been for so very long. Even the most devout believer has to agree with the evil one in this case. If you have not felt this way then you are a better man than I.
Praise the Lord for his creation of Lucifer. Knowing that he would fall away and lead many astray, God endured a rebellion of heavenly proportion. How would you feel if your celestial palace was being challenged right before your face. Your response would be like God's. Throw the Bastard out and reveal your plans. What a magnificent thought that from the foundations of celestial creation there has always been a plan.
As a believer in, faith alone in Christ alone, for an eternal relationship with this God of great power and plans, I find myself needing lots of reminders. I need for these reminders to be great in quantity and deep truths. I am writing this as a challenge; if you are even for a second bound in the trap, or if you ever regard salvation as Satan regards salvation. If you do, don't fret. Well, fret if this doesn't hit your heart. For if your heart is not impacted then i fear for Satan's grip on you. You're waiting for the part where i explain what or how Satan has been correct for so long right?
Well as you know music sometimes peacefully, deeply speaks to me. Embracing Accusation is such a piece that I wept the first time I heard it. I gathered that it was about my spiritual condition. My thoughts about God were not worthy of God, I was caught in idolatry. Have you also ever thought about how unworthy you are of God's salvation? Yes! Well good to know you are no better a man than I am. And there it is. Satan is right and we both agree whole-heartedly with him. We do not often talk about when Satan is right in church and certainly not to other believers, lest they want to evangelize us, again. I am trying to get to the point directy, but I do not want us to miss out on the point.

We do not believe God!

You, me and the rest of the followers of Jesus out there. Is this disbelief as great a sin as any action of poor moral judgment? Damn right it is! If we so much as entertain the way that Satan is correct regarding our view of God, then we of all people are to be most harshly examinied. If I would so malign the work and plan of God for Satan's truth, I pray for another chance to realign my beliefs with God's. Oh, I forgot you are still wondering the Satanic truth that we fall into... Sorry.
When you feel accused of poor performance as a believer. When you actually live to perform that you might then gain God's pleasure. When you believe that working about life differently will curry the renewed favor of God. You, like I, fall head long into Satan's accusation. Don't confuse what I am saying. You will perform poorly as a believer. God's pleasure with us and His favor on us enables living differently. BUT never does our action give us the right to that pleasure or favor. If we believe different from this we Embrace the Accusation.
We embrace the Truth of Satan when He tells us the penalty for sin is death and stops there. Or when in self loathing we regurgitate the statements of the unrighteous: I am not good enough, I can not do this life, especially alone; I will never measure up to the standard of God, never; I should just stop trying... YES! Please, by the blood of Jesus Christ stop trying. The cross is not a platform to walk out on, to stand on, or to spring board ourselves into some heavenly spotlight revealing our efforts as worthy of God's affection. Please for the sake of your soul being drained beyond replenishment STOP believeing you are gaining favor with God by being or doing...anything. Christ came to seek and save the lost.

"For the law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near." Heb. 10:1

We have only one boast of action. If the penalty for sin is death, then death is mine. Halelluia. The best I can do is take on the death of Jesus Christ. His death is mine. I must die. Allegorically, metaphorically, eventually literally to the culture of this world, in every way all the time.

-B

p.s. - listen to the song Embracing Accusation by shane and shane from the pages album.