Where Satan’s fingers go, death results. His meddling installs emptiness where God has provided abundance and doubt where God has made certain. Satan cinched Adam and Eve’s upheaval from the garden and his scheming hasn’t changed. He still aims to yank mankind from living in God, using temptation, confusion and sin.
The enemy’s propositions can appear harmless and simple. Sensible, even. “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. Genesis 3:4-6 Though she knew she was disobeying God, Eve convinced herself there was some goodness in her disobedience. Perfect, smiled her enemy. Then he was in, Eve was out and the tendrils of sin were free to creep.
Faith covers those vulnerable places that might otherwise be defenseless in the beguiling face of evil. Faith says, “I can’t see around the corner, I don’t know exactly what’s going on here, so I will make the only decision I do know to be right: trusting what God said and proceeding in His ways.” Even Jesus spoke the Word of God to drive off the devil. When I step forward in faith and the finished work of Jesus, standing in what He says is true and good, the tendrils of the enemy shrivel and retreat, for they have no power in the victory of Jesus.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned. Romans 5:12
Meeting God at the Park 