If I Were Satan

If I were Satan...

I would persuade people that suffering is the worst evil imaginable, until they will make any compromise, large or small, to avoid it.

I would use talented and attractive people to persuade others to do wicked things in clean, pleasant surroundings.

I would infiltrate places of education in order to make sure that the things of God appear unreasonable, unscientific, and ridiculous.

I would increase my power by making my most diligent servants influential in all areas—from media to religion, from entertainment to exercise.

I would consider the way God created human beings, male and female, and try to make people as confused as possible about the meaning of their bodies.

I would remember how God commands a husband to love his wife in the same self-sacrificing way that Christ loved the Church, and then persuade men to neglect their responsibilities and to look upon women as objects.

I would make women suspicious of their feminine design and deepest instincts, persuading them that men are not to be trusted and that power and independence are the means to be free and happy.

I would think of the first command that God gave humankind to "be fruitful and multiply" and then convince men and women to make the sex act sterile.

I would make parents doubt their ability and God-given authority to parent, so that they become ineffective in helping their children become who God is calling them to be.

I would do everything I could to make Christians act badly and encourage non-believers to label all Christians as hypocrites.

I would continually tempt Christians to decide for themselves who God is while ignoring what God has revealed about Himself.

If I were Satan, I would manipulate human beings until their perception of "reality" is warped and twisted, making them incapable of exercising common sense. Or perceiving the battle being waged for their souls. My diobolical goal would be to turn the hearts of men and women, boys and girls, away from their loving Father. To make them utterly forget that I, Satan, am their crafty and hateful enemy.

(After writing this article, I learned that Paul Harvey, a famous radio personality, broadcasted a prophetic speech in 1965 called, "If I Were the Devil." Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rysHrMClDE)