Madison Prewett Trout

We can make our own life happen the way we want it to.

And that's masked itself different for me in different seasons of life.

Like in high school and in middle school, I was trying to find that in boys and sports and awards and how well I did in the sport that I was playing or the guys that were chasing me.

In college, I wanted the guy I was dating to propose to me because that's what everyone was getting proposed to.

And I wanted this certain view and status and relationship status.

And then I would say today it's moments of probably, you know, having like comfort idols of turning to my husband to be what only God can be for me or turning to my daughter to be what only God can be for me or my career or whatever it may be.

And so it's masked itself in different seasons.

But if you go all the way back to the very beginning in Genesis chapter three, the fall, you see that the same three lies that the enemy has.

tempted eve with and that eve fell for are the same three lies that he tempts us with today and the first one is did god really say did god really say that and he's always going to come at us trying to get us to to doubt god in some way shape or form or doubt the the validity of scripture and the word of god that we can you know figure out truth outside of the truth

The second is, is he downplays sin?

Oh, you won't die.

If you eat this fruit, you won't die.

It's not really that big of a deal.

So then we just don't take sin serious, whether that's, you know, quote unquote, small sins or the bigger sins.

And then the last one is, is he speaks to the advantage of sin.

If you eat this fruit, you'll be like God.

You won't even need God.

You'll be wise like God.

You can have what you need apart from God.

And I think these are the same plays that Satan runs today.