面對撒但的欺騙Confronting Satan’s Deception
[每日靈修] 10/13/2018, 駱鴻銘編譯
撒但的本性是善於欺騙。聖經說牠從一開始就是說謊的（約八44）。牠第一次出現在聖經中，就裝扮成蛇的樣子。這個惡毒生物的資歷在牠的介紹詞中就被宣告出來：「那時，蛇比田野一切的活物更狡猾」（創三1）。
這些話像是個不速之客，突然闖入到對上帝偉大創造之工的光輝描述裏。用「那時，蛇……」這些話，聖經記載的整個氛圍就發生了巨大的改變。突如其來的不祥預感進入到敘事當中。一個未受靈默示的作者，或許會這樣來開啟墮落的記載：「這是個黑暗和狂暴的日子」。但是這樣的陳腔濫調卻無法產生「那時，蛇比一切活物更狡猾」這句話所蘊含的不祥預感。
詭詐、狡猾、陰險、詭計。這些都是描繪聖經撒但形像的修飾詞。
活在神的面光中（在神面前禱告）：
詭詐、狡猾、陰險、充滿詭計。在個人誘惑的範圍內，撒但如何利用這些特性來對付你？
進一步研讀：
(Gen 3:1) 耶和華 神所造的，惟有蛇比田野一切的活物更狡猾。蛇對女人說：「神豈是真說不許你們吃園中所有樹上的果子嗎？」
(2Co 2:11) 免得撒但趁著機會勝過我們，因我們並非不曉得他的詭計。(Rev 12:9) 大龍就是那古蛇，名叫魔鬼，又叫撒但，是迷惑普天下的。他被摔在地上，他的使者也一同被摔下去。
Confronting
Satan’s Deception
It is
the nature of Satan to be deceptive. Scripture says he has been a liar from the
beginning. His first appearance in Scripture comes under the guise of a
serpent. The credentials of this malevolent creature are announced in his
introduction: “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made” (Gen. 3:1).
These
words fall as a sudden intrusion into an otherwise glorious account of God’s
majestic work of creation. With the words “Now the serpent,” the whole
atmosphere of the biblical record changes dramatically. A sudden and ominous
sense of foreboding enters the narrative. An uninspired author of Genesis 3 may
have introduced the record of the fall by saying, “It was a dark and stormy
day.” But such hackneyed prose would have failed to yield the foreboding dread
contained in the words “Now the serpent was more cunning.”
Cunning.
Craftiness. Subtlety. Guile. These are the descriptive qualifiers that paint
the biblical portrait of Satan.
Coram
Deo
Cunning.
Crafty. Subtle. Full of guile. How has Satan used these attributes against you
in the realm of personal temptation?
Passages
for Further Study
Genesis
3:1
2
Corinthians 2:11
Revelation
12:9
