I recently heard a young woman say that after she was saved she felt sorry for satan, so she began praying for him.
I can understand that once you have received salvation that you want others to share in that wonderful experience and the amazing love of God. But I encouraged her not to spend any time praying for him or feeling sorry for him. He cannot be redeemed! He was in the very presence of God. He saw God’s face! There is nothing greater than that!
His name means adversary because that is what he is. God put enmity (hatred) between Eve’s seed and the seed of the serpent. Why? Because he knew that if he did not, we would not hate him. We would feel sorry for him! We would think that he means us good! We would court him and believe all of his lies. Adam and Eve did. They believed the biggest lie of all: “God knows that in the day that you eat of that fruit you will know good from evil and be like God” (Gen. 3:5). They were so deceived by his subtle lies that they did not realize that they were so like God that when God chose to come as a man he came as Adam — the second Adam.
We have so much to pray for — let’s pray for those who are falling prey to satan’s lies and manipulation, not for the Father of all Lies whose end is sure!
PRAYER: Father, you are so just and righteous that we trust your sovereignty in the adversary’s eternal destruction. We pray for those who have been beguiled by his lies. Open our eyes so that we may see the truth and not be swept away into a damnation that belongs to him and his angels, not to us — the ones made in your image. Amen.
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