Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ” “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.” (Genesis 3:1-5 NIV)
How we expect the voice of evil to sound just that, Evil!
Like on the movies with the devil on one shoulder and the angel on another. Each urging the person to choose their way.
That's how we expect it to sound, so we know what it is and so we can avoid it.
However it almost never does, it doesn't ever sound like it wants to hurt us otherwise I don't think we would follow that voice.
I mean really, who in there right mind would follow something that sounds Evil and scary.
It brings me to this question: did the serpent actually sound sweet to Eve?
We always talk about how the fruit must have looked so sweet and juicy, but we never talk about how satan sounded to Eve when he tricked her into eating it. It says he was more crafty then all of the other animals, he was sneaky about it, his whole aim being for Eve to trust his word above God's.
We assume he was all creepy and that if we had been in the same position we would have known it was him and not listened to him. (Genesis 3)
But we do it all the time, because it never sounds like that.
Compromise does not sound like it will hurt us, and then it does.
Addiction always sounds like just this once or just once more, before it captures us.
Sin never sounds like it will take us that far away from God, and then we find ourselves wondering how we got so lost.
Because if it sounded Evil we would never listen to it. We would know and we would run.
I think the only way to know for sure is to know Gods voice from all the others. Like when it says the sheep know my voice or when Mary knows It's Jesus as soon as he says her name.
When we know his voice clearer then all the others it doesn't matter how sweet evil sounds. His voice is always much sweeter.
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