Genesis 3:8 (‘In the cool of the evening, the man and his wife heard the LORD God walking around in the garden. …..’) This shows how much God wanted to walk along with human. This intimacy or love God shared with human should have made Satan jealous so that he cleverly tackled the free will of human to select the ‘Fruit’ of sin and lost Eden as per God’s protocol.
But He still wanted eagerly to maintain the relation with human that He did not spare His Son for us. (Romans 8:32 – “God didn’t spare his own Son but handed him over [to death] for all of us. So he will also give us everything along with him.”). God always work for our good that He confirmed the image of His Son in us that The Son being our elder brother and we the sons and daughters of God. (Romans 8:30 – “… and had already appointed them to have the same form as the image of his Son. Therefore, his Son is the firstborn among many children.”) What a relation! Which is much higher than the relation with Adam. The first ‘Sin’ happened when the first human tried to be like God, now God is confirming to us that we are already in His image. As the strength of relation is higher so is the jealous of Satan. Satan didn’t work that hard to deceive the first human when compared to his present struggle. Before only the free will of ‘choice’ was tackled, but now it is anger, jealous, eager, desire, greed and even love. But to overcome all these struggles, God says He is for us, so that it doesn’t matter how hard the Satan’s intervention. (Romans 8:31 – “… If God is for us, who can be against us?”).
So what could we say, if God didn’t spare His Son for us, how will He not also, along with the Son, graciously give us all strength to overcome temptation, trouble, hardship, persecution, danger, famine, nakedness, danger, sword or any. Christ is always with us while being at the right hand of God justifying and interceding for us. And whatever Christ has in God is also available for us. (Romans 8:32-35 – “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all–how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died–more than that, who was raised to life–is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?”).
We are more than conquerors in all things and nothing could ever separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:37-39 – “…, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creations, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord”.) In short, no darkness can exist at the brightness of God. So we do not have to worry about Satan but believe who we are in Christ.
Reji Jacob 