Don't Believe the Lies.

Satan is terrible. Ok, that's an understatement. Put dook basketball, unsweet tea, donating blood, and graphing linear equations together and you have 1/1,000th of the terrible-ness of Satan. But he is so believable...he knows just what to say and how to say it that makes us actually think that he is right. Just like little brothers know the things that push our buttons and annoy us until Kingdom come, the devil is strategic in planting seeds of doubt that eventually break ground and begin to overtake our thoughts...much like ivy covers the walls of a brick house.

"They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen." --Romans 1:25

So be it. God is truth...and when we allow ourselves to abandon our faith in that fact, we are in trouble. When we take our eyes off of the absolute truth that the Lord embodies and reveals to us, Satan gets the little bit of room that he needs to whisper lies in our ears. And for some reason, it must be our sinful nature, we begin to believe the lies more than the truth...how ridiculous! In Romans, this process of trading the truth for lies is directly connected to worshiping and serving the creation rather than the Creator. Listening to Satan simply mixes up our priorities. Can I "amen" myself?!

God is the source of all. He created all. And He is the standard for all. God is all we need.