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Topic: To Trust or Not to Trust
Disobedience says to God that
you know better than He does
when it comes to your life.
Disobedience says to the Lord that you know better than He does when it comes to your life and the circumstances surrounding it. Nothing could be further from the truth. God loves you and is
committed to you. He commands your obedience not because He is a strict taskmaster but because He knows the devastating effect that disobedience and
sin will have on your life You were created to have fellowship with God.
You were created to have fellowship with Him. Disobedience disrupts that fellowship and puts obstacles in the way of your relationship. It creates spiritual distance between you and God and makes
you vulnerable to temptation. That vulnerability doesn’t go unnoticed by Satan. He encourages disobedience by telling you the Lord’s promises cannot be trusted and you can enjoy life more if you ignore His commands. Satan will skew your
perspective by causing you to doubt the most secure and trustworthy thing in the world: God’s Word.
Disobedience always leads to consequences.
The key to resisting Satan’s temptation is to remember that disobedience always produces consequences—including feelings of guilt, shame, and worthlessness; broken lives; destroyed
marriages; and bitter disputes. While sin can never change God’s eternal love for His children, it can certainly disrupt your fellowship and alienates you from His blessings.
In times of disobedience, you become spiritually weak and unable to discern right
from wrong. You sink deeper into sin’s grasp and find it impossible to reverse your sinfulness on your own.
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman,
“Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” (Genesis 3:1).
6. Read Genesis 3.
Notice that Satan began his temptation of Eve with the question, “Has God
indeed said . . .?” (1). Why was this question such an effective tool when it came to temptation? What did it cause Eve to consider?
