The Master Deceiver

Deception is one of the symptoms of an evil mind. It can really make a relationship go sour and also result in down fall. The story of deception began in the Garden of Eden after the Creation.
God who is Holy, Loving created the whole world along with all its elements and then at last He created human beings. The first humans were Adam and Eve. God gave them the ownership over the Earth and blessed them to enjoy and multiply. He also gave them a command. It was to eat of every tree except for one. God said that if they disobey and eat of that tree they would certainly die. Adam and Eve were very happy and they were enjoying themselves in the Garden.
Now, Satan was very cunning. He had and still has big problem with God and Godliness. He never could tolerate that Adam and Eve were living happily like in fairy stories and they were enjoying the fellowship of God. Their contentment and happiness was hard for Satan to digest.
One day as Eve was relaxing and enjoying the beautiful scenery and listening to the music of the birds in the trees, Satan came to Eve in the form of a serpent. At first he planted a seed of doubt in Eve’s heart. It was against God. Satan tried to make Eve think that after all, God’s rule about not eating a specific fruit was too restrictive for them. Satan subtly made her to think that God was not thinking for their good but that He was selfish. Eve foolishly believed Satan’s lies.
Then Satan also deceived Eve by saying that eating the forbidden fruit will bring knowledge, power and freedom. At that vulnerable moment, Eve forgot God’s word that disobeying His law would bring death and disaster. Suddenly, the fruit looked too good to her eyes. She felt that God’s law was too heavy to obey and too restrictive. Instead Satan’s words seemed true, affectionate and sensible.
In one week moment Eve stopped to weigh her thoughts and went on to make the biggest blunder of her life. She believed that God was wrong, His plans are not for her benefit and the forbidden fruit was indeed wonderful and attractive.
In fact, the fruit was of no special value, but Satan was only trying to make Adam and Eve disobey God and loose their happiness and he won. Eve ate the fruit and also gave to Adam. But in the next instant she realized that she had been deceived. The fruit did not bring anything that Satan had promised rather she felt lonely, guilty, sad and very far away from God.Satan is still on his old business of deceiving people and turning them away from God. When we listen to him, like Eve, we think that godly rules are too restrictive, we doubt against God’s goodness and want to have our own way in life.
Deception is Satan’s character and so when we are deceiving someone in any form, we are actually reflecting Satan- the evil power.