Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Satan

So many people know about god. And so many people blame him for all the suffering on earth, for not intervening more. But so little people talk about Satan. Because god is god, the one who knows and "controls" all things, he must be responsible for all the tragedies and disasters that happen on earth, because he is god. But so little people talk about Satan. How he is in fact the ruler of Earth. How he tempts us all into despair for the good of nothing. And yet we blame God because He is god, and we can't see that if we really knew God, we'd know that God is first and foremost the embodiment of love. He gave Adam and Eve free will so that they would worship Him freely, and not like robots under a command. God gave us free will so we could do the same. But because we were deceived by Satan to allow sin into the world, we condemned ourselves to death, and God had to pay the price by sending Jesus, a pure and blameless lamb, to sacrifice his life for our chance of redemption. His love is at the center of all this. And the earth was condemned to face an end, to deteriorate, and yet we blame God for causing tsunamis and earthquakes, when sin, which was brought to earth by Satan, is the cause for man's death as well as the destruction of physical earth. Still, we don't know that God's love for the human race is so deep that He is actually holding Earth together and is patient to wait for our acceptance of Him, what He actually made into an opportunity for eternal life. This is our hope. He gave us hope when Satan destroyed our relationship with Him from the very beginning. Satan, the one who we never talk about enough to know that He is the source of our pain, our suffering, the things in life that are not pleasurable, the things in life we often blame God for letting us put up with. Satan.

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