READ:
GENESIS 1:26-28
Satan
operates a diabolical trade by barter. He offers something in order to take
another thing from those who decide to play games with him. However, no one can
play game with Satan and win. No matter how alluring what the devil’s offers
looks, he would always give you an inferior thing in order to take a superior
one from you. What lesson can we learn from our text? The first thing to note is
that the earth belongs to the Lord, according to Psalm 24:1: “The
earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell
therein.” The earth is the Lord’s not because somebody gave it to Him
but because He created it. The creation of the earth was His idea. In Genesis
1:1, the Bible says: “In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth.” It was after that He decided to give man dominion over it.
This is recorded in our text. Man made a great mistake by handing the glory
bestowed upon him by God to the devil who, for a period of time, held control
over the earth. When God faced Satan in the wilderness during the temptation,
the devil tried to bargain with the Lord over the earth but God refused him.
When man handed the earth to the devil, you can imagine the feeling of our Lord
Jesus Christ. The Bible tells us, in Isaiah 63, that Jesus was very angry. He
decided to fight to regain what belonged to Him. Jesus paid the supreme price
in order to restore unto man what was lost through the diabolical trade by
barter. Thank God, we are now redeemed. However, we need to constantly be on
the watch. Satan is still looking for ways of exchanging our good for his evil.
He must never succeed.
MEMORIZE: PSALM 24:1 –The earth is the LORD’s, and all
its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.
