In Genesis 3, we read the story of the fall of humanity. The serpent opens his dialogue with Eve by creating doubt.
“I heard a rumor … could it possibly be true?”
If you look at this chapter carefully, you will find that almost everything the serpent says is true, but it is a twisted truth designed to deceive. Here the first spin doctor dresses the truth the way he wants us to see it.
The real message of the serpent is this: “Maybe there’s something about God you don’t know. Maybe once you knew, you would find that He isn’t as nice as you thought He was. In fact, God really cannot be trusted. God is trying to withhold something good from you. If you were like God (a little god yourself), then you would know what God is up to, and you could protect yourself from His schemes.”
All of us will have doubts about God at some point or another. The question is not, “Will we have doubts?” The question instead is, “With whom will we discuss those doubts?”
Eve learned a bitterly painful lesson: You don’t discuss your doubts with the devil.
You take them to God. God knows about our doubts, and He isn’t threatened by them. He is happy to talk them through with us any time we’re ready.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
