Cheryl Schatz

Pinklight,

Be encouraged because all of us have had distorted views of God because of tradition and satan’s work.  Satan hates God and wants him to be viewed in a bad light.  I remember when I came to the place in my life where I gave myself fully to Jesus.  I had been viewing him as the God who wanted to make me miserable because I saw his will as only wanting to control me.  My eyes were opened when I read a book that showed how my perception of God was completely wrong.  The view that I had of God was instead satan’s false testimony and not the truth.  God loves us so much and desires that we come to know him.  He is also willing to work in our hearts so that we desire the things that he desires.  God is not a spoil-sport as satan portrays him.  All of satan’s words are lies and distortions.  We cannot believe a single thing he says.

Years ago when I was doing a lot of studying in old JW books in order to understand their theology so that I could better serve them as teaching them the truth in Christ, I came across an odd statement in the Watchtower that said that a truth spoken by satan is just as true as a truth spoken by God.  They said that we are to embrace truth wherever we find it.  Apparently they didn’t take seriously Jesus’ words that there is NO truth IN satan.  There is no such thing as a truth spoken by satan because he is incapable of truth.  He is an example of one who has been turned over to his sin.  He is fully and completely in darkness.  He is the complete opposite of God.  Where God has no darkness in him, satan is only darkness.  Where God is fully light, there is no light in satan at all.  Our goal is to find what God has said and embrace it, believe it and practice it.  God’s word is truth.