How Can You Become God's Friend?- HOW SATAN ACCUSES YOU

You can learn important lessons from what happened to Job. Today, Satan accuses us of  serving Jehovah for what we can get from Him.  At Job 2:4,  Satan claimed:  "A man will give everything that he has for his life."  So Satan accuses all men and women of being selfish, not just Job.  Hundreds of years after Job died, Satan was still insulting Jehovah and accusing his servants.  For example, at Proverbs 27:11, we read:  "Be wise my son, and make my heart rejoice, so that I can make a reply to him who taunts [or, insults] me." 

You can choose to obey Jehovah and be His loyal friend, proving that Satan is a liar.  Even if you need to make big changes in your life to become God's friend, I is the best decision you could ever make!  This decision is a serious matter.  Satan claims that you will not be loyal to God when you have problems.  He tries to trick us into being disloyal to God. How so?

Satan uses many different methods to try stop us from being God's friend.  He attacks "like a roaring lion, seeking to devour someone."  (1 Peter 5:8)  Do not be surprised  when your friends, family members, or others try to stop you from studying the Bible and from doing what is right.  You may feel as if you are being attacked.  (John 15:19, 20)  Satan also disguises himself "as an angel of light." So he may try to trick us into disobeying Jehovah.  (2 Corinthians 11:14)    Another method Satan uses to try to stop us from serving Jehovah is to make us think that we are never good enough to serve God. - PROVERBS 24:10.

Next time:  How Can You Become God's Friend? -OBEY JEHOVAH'S COMMANDS

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