Do you hear the voice of God?

     Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell the voice of evil from the voice of God?  It sounds like it should be easy, but most of us know already that it’s anything but easy.  I want you to know three things about the voice of the evil one that distinguishes him from the voice of God.

Satan’s voice always has these three qualities:

1. It contradicts God’s commandments

Just like Adam and Eve in the Garden, Satan always lures us away from God’s Commandments. Satan will try to convince us that we don’t need to worship or that pornography really isn’t all that bad or that gossip doesn’t actually hurt anyone.

That is why we need to form our conscience well in the 10 Commandments and not just stop at “Thou shalt not murder.”  Our very thoughts are forerunners of the actions of sin.

2. It creates anxiety rather than peace

Satan seeks to divide and conquer and in the process he creates great confusion in our life.

In effect, one of the most common strategies of the devil in his efforts to distance us from God and to slow our spiritual progress is to attempt to cause the loss of our inner peace. Someone once said: “The devil does his utmost to banish peace from one’s heart, because he knows that God abides in peace and it is in peace that He accomplishes great things.”

The key here is to always test the voice/decision and to see if it creates peace or anxiety in our hearts. Jeremiah 17:9 warrens us about following our hearts over the word of God.  The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

3. It accuses us and brings us down

Another key aspect of God’s voice is that He always seeks to affirm us and tell us about our beauty as children of God. The devil will try to convince us that we are terrible, horrible, awful human beings. He will do his best to tell us that we are worthless, sinful, wretched men and women. After we have committed a sin, Satan will always tell us that God does not love us and that we are not worthy enough to be in Heaven. Satan is the Accuser (Revelation 20:10)

 The spiritual battle for our soul is not easy, but by taking these three principles we will be better able to follow God’s voice instead of the Enemy who seeks to destroy us.