SOUL SNACK 110/11 ... The Bite of Satan - 1

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘did God really say, you must not eat from any tree in the garden?' (Gen 3:1)

Into the verdant garden slithers the venom that would poison perfection.

Snakes are known for their poisonous attributes. They have always been that way. The bite of a snake can be fatal, especially to the unaware or the unprepared. It is the innocent who do not see the poison.

Reason suggests that it can only be the naïve that would deliberately entertain their own destruction. An informed yet innocent Eve (she already knew God's only instruction for life in Eden) now receives that intoxicating drip of poison delivered by deceit.

This time there was no lie from satan, merely a question. The poison of doubt and distrust now dripping. The fangs are close by. But, she is still safe. The brightness of Eden would soon be clouded by the grey of indecision. The poison is still not in, not yet.

To trust is to not doubt. I only have to question God's good intentions for me and satan will then do the rest. He wants to keep me out of heaven, as much as he wanted to remove Eve out of Eden.

Satan's venom is the poison of distrust in my loving God and His truthful goodness to me. When I distrust God I have been bitten.

Satan wants to bite the garden of your soul to turn it into the desert that is his soul.

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