Case in point for me: this past summer.
"And so he seeks to get us to doubt the goodness of God... Once he has done that, the rest is easy."
The evil one wants me to forget, not remember. He wants me to be skeptical, not faithful. He wants me to doubt, not trust.
"And thus, we end up no longer trusting God, and no longer experiencing life with a capital L"
This all reminds me of one of the points our speaker at the College Life Fall Retreat made this past weekend. He was talking about fighting temptations, and how often it can be like fighting waves from a hurricane. We'll be able to survive one, two, five, ten waves, but unless we deal with the source, this hurricane, we'll ultimately be stuck wondering why these waves of temptation keep coming and overtaking us. Drowning under wave after wave of temptation is no way to Live.
Darrell reminds us that it comes down to trust. As our speaker put it, "Do you buy into what Jesus said?" Do you believe Him when He says He is all we need? The He is good? Do you remember that He is good? We've all seen how good He is! Yet one of my greatest qualities is short-sightedness, not remembering the past and not trusting His will for the future. I let the tests become temptations when I don't trust in who He is, don't remember His redeeming gospel, don't remember what He has done, and don't trust in what He is doing.
Trust = Life.
Discipline = Freedom.
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