“Satan
is not opposed to good morals. He’s opposed to Jesus Christ.
“Read
that again because most Christians miss this completely.
“Satan
doesn’t care if you’re a “good person”. He doesn’t care if you volunteer at the
food bank, recycle your trash, and help old ladies cross the street. He doesn’t
care if you’re kind, generous, and well-liked by everyone in your community.
“He
cares that you don’t bow the knee to Jesus. Here’s the deception that’s damning
millions: Satan has convinced people that morality equals spirituality. That
being a “good person” is the same as being a Christian. That if you just live
right, treat people well, and avoid the “big sins”, you’re acceptable to God.
“This
is a lie straight from the pit of hell. The Pharisees had impeccable morals.
They followed the law meticulously. They were respected, disciplined, and
religiously devoted yet Jesus called them children of the devil. Why? Not
because their morals were bad. Because their morals replaced Christ. Satan’s
greatest trick isn’t making bad people worse. It’s making good people think
they don’t need a Saviour.
“Think
about it: The atheist who feeds the homeless thinks he’s good enough without
God. The Buddhist who meditates and practices compassion thinks she’s
enlightened without Christ. The Muslim who prays five times daily thinks he’s
righteous without Jesus. The moral Christian who goes to church, pays his
tithe, and avoids scandal thinks he’s saved without surrender. All of them are
headed to the same place: eternal separation from God.
“Because
morality doesn’t save. Jesus saves: “For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man
should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9).
“Satan
loves moral people who reject Jesus. They’re his best advertisement for the lie
that you can earn your way to heaven. They’re living proof that you can:
·
Be
kind without Christ;
·
Be
generous without God;
·
Be
disciplined without the Holy Spirit;
·
Be
respected without redemption.
“And
still be lost. The most dangerous people in hell won’t be the murderers and
rapists. They’ll be the moral, upstanding citizens who thought their goodness
was good enough. Their morals became their idol. Their goodness became their
god. And Satan smiled because he’d accomplished his goal: to keep them away
from Jesus.
“Your
goodness won’t save you. Your works won’t redeem you. Your morality won’t
justify you. Only the blood of Jesus Christ can wash away your sins and make
you acceptable to a holy God. Everything else is just Satan’s distraction from
the one thing that actually matters.”
-
Author
Unknown
This
piece of writing made me think of the truthfulness of it. President Nelson once
said that Lucifer is skilled at distraction, distortion, deception and
misdirection. He will employ any tactic to lift us to the level of his pride,
even the tactic of ‘goodness’. This is perhaps one of the greatest tools he is
using today: to make us think we are good enough as we are, to believe in ‘our
truth’, to pursue our importance, to make this world attractive veiled in our self-absorption.
He has succeeded creating the ‘me, myself and I world’.
His
goal is for us to miss out on Christ’s salvation of grace. Lucifer is the ultimate
antithesis of the Saviour of the world who desires our salvation while he
desires our destruction. They are polar opposites who have one thing in common:
they both desire for us to become as they are.
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