Satan's Secret

Read II Corinthians 5:19

A driving instructor in Germany was stopped by police after a minor accident with a truck. When asked for his driver’s license, he couldn’t provide one. He had been instructing students for more than 40 years on how to drive, yet he didn’t have his own license! Years earlier, he had failed a driving test, and he was fearful of trying again. He kept this fact a secret out of embarrassment.
Satan also has a secret in his past that he doesn’t want people to learn about. What is his secret? He no longer has the power to separate us from God. Our enemy doesn’t want anyone to know this truth because he desires to keep nonbelievers controlled by sin and believers entangled in it. If he can keep those that have not entered a relationship with Jesus Christ from doing so, he knows that they will not discover that he is powerless. If he can keep followers of Christ entangled, he is able to paint a picture that shows him in control rather than the Lord. When things are bad, remember that he is hiding the secret of his lack of power from you.
It’s true that because of sin we were separated from God. When Jesus died on the cross, He bore all our sins and took on Himself our punishment of death. God then raised Jesus from the dead, and now He reigns in heaven. This is referred to in scripture as the gospel, or the good news, and when it is applied to our live by repentance, baptism in Jesus’ name by immersion, He fills us with His Spirit and the separation is broken. We are reunited, or reconciled, to Him by the gospel.
God always stands between the Christian and the enemy.
The outstretched hand of God extends
To those weighed down by sin;
He offers to remove the load
And give His peace within. —Sper

“God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer