Why Satan has an easier job than God.

*Satan can win someone’s heart and soul even if they don’t believe he exists, God can’t.
*God has certain standards that must be met to please Him, Satan doesn’t.
*God has several steps that must be taken by the individual. Satan only needs one step to be 
ignored, skipped, or refused. For example: 
         *We must believe God is and that He rewards those that seek Him. - Hebrews 11:6
         *We must believe the Bible is God’s word. - Romans 10:17, Ephesians 6:17
         *We must believe Jesus is God’s Son and that He is God. - Acts 16:30-31 
         *We must believe Jesus rose from the grave. - John 20:9 
         *We must repent of our sins. - Luke 13:3,5
         *We must confess Jesus. - Acts 4:12 
         *We must obey the gospel / be born again. - John 3:7, Acts 9:6
         *We must be faithful(This opens a whole new list.) til death. - Acts 14:22 
         *We must worship in Spirit and Truth(This is another list). - John 4:24 
         *The gospel must be shared with others. - Mark 13:10 
If there is a break in any one of these Satan wins.
*God requires man to have no other gods, Satan doesn’t care how many as long as it is not God only.
*God requires sacrifice and self-control, Satan doesn’t.

ANTHROPOMORPHISM - GIVING HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS TO GOD

The French philosopher Voltaire said, “God created man in his image and  then man returned the favor.” From the time Adam and Eve hid in the Garden,  giving God the human characteristic of limited knowledge, up to the present  people have practiced anthropomorphism. Most likely it will continue until  the end of time. We are all guilty of this from time to time when we think  based on our human experience and knowledge that God is being unfair about  one thing or another. When we accuse God of not making sense in the  directives He has given we are trying to limit Him to human thoughts. God,  however, cannot be limited by us neither can His reasoning always be  understood by us. He said, “ {8} For my thoughts are not your thoughts,  neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. {9} For as the heavens are  higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts  than your thoughts. (Isa 55:8-9).”

Today we live in a society that is loosening its morals and denying  absolutes in every area of life. As a result of this degradation, people  (even Christians) are attributing to God these wishy-washy values and  painting Him with rose colored peace and love glasses. Any lifestyle no  matter how strictly condemned in the Bible is now OK with us and with God to  since we have made him in our image. Everyone is at peace with a gracious  and loving God Who would never send any of his beloved creation to such a  horrible place as Hell, in fact, Hell doesn’t even exist.

Is this god that people are now serving the real God? NO! God doesn’t flip  flop on matters like a fish out of water. James says, “ Every good gift and  every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,  with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” (James 1:17). If  God said it was evil 2000 years ago it is still evil now, if He said it was  good it is still good, and if He said there is a Hell where the disobedient  will be sent then there still is.

God is not a grandfather who spoils children by letting them have anything  they want and never disciplining them, quite to the contrary, (Heb 12:6-7)  ”For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he  receiveth. {7} If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons;  for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”. We need to be sure that  we give God the characteristics attributed to him by the Bible and not those  made up by sinful men who call good evil and evil good.

How do you envision God? Does He look like you? Think like you? Act like  you? Remember that we need to be changing to become more like Him, not  changing our image of Him to become more like us. (Rom 1:22-25) Professing  themselves to be wise, they became fools, {23} And changed the glory of the  uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds,  and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. {24} Wherefore God also gave  them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour  their own bodies between themselves: {25} Who changed the truth of God into  a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is  blessed for ever. Amen.