What Satan Wants Most

What do you think Satan wants most? Is it violence, famine, disaster, slavery, sickness, sexual corruption, political corruption? It would seem all of these are correct but I'm not so sure it is really any of these...  Since Lucifer was thrown out of heaven (description of which is referred to in Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14:3-20 where Satan is reffered to as the "king of Tyre" and the "king of Babylon" also God speaks of it in Revelation 12 & Luke 10) he's been angry with God... Still acting on the same battle plan trying to turn God's own kingdom against Him... Trying to force those created by a loving God to serve evil and eventually fall in worship to him instead of God.  But all of what Satan is doing is not because he thinks he can win in the end, it's because he messed up and he knows his demise is coming.

I propose, the one thing the devil really wants is the one thing he will never have. He wants to be able to take back that moment he decided to turn against God... See, Satan was created to worship God but he wanted more, he wanted to sit above God... But since heaven is God's house nothing could be accomplished against Him and Lucifer was thrown out the door, never to return!

Two things are established without being said in this story... 1. Satan is (as is everything an everyone) a created being... Created by God for God... Therefor he is less powerful than God! And 2. Satan is not now and will never fulfill his calling... Lucifer was called to worship God and he messed it up, he can't get back to where he was meant to be, he will always have that gaping hole in his heart and the memory of his choice and ultimate fall to remind him why he is what he has become... Satan understands it's his own fault and he hates himself for it!

The one thing Satan would do if he was able would be to re-enter heaven, to have his calling back but since he cannot ever have his place back, just like an angry child, he hates anyone who can have a place in heaven, anyone who worships God, anyone who sings to God... He hates to hear the voice of worship whether it is in song, coversation, writing, witness, daily living, or any other way you can think of... Satan hates all of it because each word serves a reminder that no matter what song that does not glorify God he inspires someone to write, no matter how great of a singer that person is, no matter how high that song climbs on the charts or what kind of bondage he puts that person in, no matter what kind of spectacle  he makes of them, it never takes away the memory or fills the emptiness he feels.  

I'm not saying any of this to make you feel bad for Satan, we should not. I'm telling you all of this for understanding sake, to draw this conclusion:  1. The reason you're feeling attacked and beaten is because you are... Satan hates you because God loves you! God has given to you what Satan lost, a place in heaven. God loves you so much he brought himself down from heaven for you and died for you! Satan lost the love of God through his own doing and wants you to make the same wrong choices to become your own God... To think you can and should navigate your own path in life without the help of the one who created and loves you. The only way Lucifer can influence you to follow in his footsteps is to convince you to make those choices, so he makes life hard on you and tries to tire and weaken you out of making a stand and fighting through circumstances to get to God. And 2.  If Lucifer is not as powerful as God (which is clearly shown he is not) and God is with you then Lucifer cannot beat you! 

If God be for us who can be against us? (Romans 8:31) Listen, what you need to do is put your grown up underwear on and have confidence! God is going to see you through! Luke 10:18 Jesus said, "I know. I saw Satan fall, a bolt of lightning out of the sky. See what I've given you? Safe passage as you walk on snakes and scorpions, and protection from every assault of the Enemy. No one can put a hand on you. All the same, the great triumph is not in your authority over evil, but in God's authority over you and presence with you. Not what you do for God but what God does for you—that's the agenda for rejoicing." He loved you enough to step down from streets of gold onto streets of mud, from a throne of grace to a bed of hay and from the songs of angles to the scoffing and beating from men so don't you think a God like that loves you enough to wrap His arms around you after a mistake and strengthen you against your trials? Yes, He will!