Discover Truth | Rae Lynn DeAngelis
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other” (Matthew 6:24).
In our futile thinking and flawed human nature, we assume that if a little is good then a lot must be better. Why is that?
“Satan camps out in the pleasure center of our brains. He dangles the bait; you want more! We bite. The hook paralyzes us because our brain’s pleasure center is all about ‘more’. In all areas of our lives, we’ve come to believe the lie that ‘more is better.” ~Torn Between Two Masters, Kimberly Davidson
Satan uses discontentment as a powerful tool to keep our hearts far from God. He hopes that our never-ending search to be filled by the things of this world will direct us away from what can truly satisfy. And he’s right.
In our lust for more of the world, we drift further and further from God. Unfortunately, indulging in pleasures of the flesh is like pouring water into a broken cistern.
“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water” (Jeremiah 2:13).
By convincing us that God is holding out on us, Satan keeps us from experiencing true contentment. It’s the same tactic he used in the very beginning. God gave Adam and Eve a garden filled with a vast variety of fruits and vegetables to eat. There was just one fruit they were commanded not to eat—the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Isn’t it just like man to want the one thing we shouldn’t have?
“When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members” (Romans 7:21-23).
Enlightenment is the key to change. When we begin to understand the root of our discontentment and realize Satan’s tactics of deception are the same today as they were in the Garden of Eden, we can move towards finding true satisfaction through God.
Satisfaction and complete contentment are only possible when we seek God with all of our heart and allow the fullness of His Spirit to reign in our lives. Only then will the deep well of our soul be filled.
“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well” (Matthew 6:33).
