What a man wants is unfailing love, better to be poor than a liar. (Proverbs 19:22 NIV84)
God created us to want unconditional love, to want Him. It is better to be poor in spirit (know you need God) than to lie (and say in your heart you don’t need God). Satan appeals to our desire to meet our own needs, be our own “god”, to be our own source. Satan hates God, hates that He is love, and hates those who accept Him and His love… and return His love. He hates God because God’s goodness exposes satan’s evil selfish corruption. People worship (value) God because God demonstrates His humility and self-sacrificing care for them every day. God puts our needs ahead of His own. He is not only the Great King He is the Lowest (Head) Servant.
But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:42-45, NKJV).
Satan tells people to blame God for all the evil in the world. Satan tells people that God is uninterested in them, in their struggles, hurts, cares or dreams. Satan tells people that God is a nitpicking tyrant just waiting to pounce on them for doing the littlest thing wrong.
These are actually the qualities of satan and the opposite of the qualities of God.
God demonstrated who He really is when He walked on earth with us, in the person of Jesus Christ. Read the truth about God in the Bible. Read the Gospels, literally the “Good News”: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John at the beginning of the New Testament of the Bible. Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, and proclaimed the coming of His kingdom where His kind of loving service would rule; instead of this world’s current selfishness.
Do you want a God who is a loving leader; who values you and even your smallest dreams; who has served your greatest need already by paying the cost of your sin so you could spend forever with Him, so He could love you, and you could freely love Him back? If so, ask Jesus to come into your heart, to be your Servant and your Leader. Spend time talking to Him and listening to Him through prayer and reading the Bible. Ask Him to fill you with His Holy Spirit. Find a church that believes and preaches the Bible. And tell others what a great thing God has done for you.
I AM for You! 