“… The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work”
1 John 3:8
In the beginning, God created man by speaking to Himself. He took a little bit of Himself and put it into the first man so Adam would be like Him and could share in His life.
But the life God intended for His children was destroyed by their disobedience. Satan’s deception and the sin of the man and the woman destroyed the relationship between God and the creatures He had taken out of Himself. The fellowship of like thoughts and purposes was broken, and man’s relationship with God became distorted and skewed. Human beings lost their potential to be like the Creator—to know His thoughts and see through His eyes. Through sin, our access to God was cut off and the wealth of God’s secret wisdom was buried. The deep things of God became more than we could know or comprehend.
Satan came into our lives to minimize, nullify, and destroy our potential. He has killed, stolen, and destroyed what God planted deep within each person. Through the years, the devil has succeeded in convincing men and women, each with a little part of God, that they are worthless, rotten, incapable people. But in the fullness of time Jesus came into the world to address this very problem. Jesus came to wage “the battle of the caps”—the battle of the destroyers. There are two destroyers in the world. One is satan; the other is Jesus. Satan comes to destroy, and Jesus comes to destroy.
When man puts a limit on what he can be, he has put a limit on what he will be.
