Satan drives a Kia

Okay if you were tricked into believing rapping hamsters equated to quality automotive products you may have some issues.

But I don't think Kia is all-together bad or the vehicle of choice for the devil....but it helps in my illustration in a second.

As far as God is concerned, He is a Dodge man...I mean Dodge God. Why? Well, they have the caravan and the ram...both biblical words. Plus they have the Nitro and Viper...both classic American Gladiator names.

Okay, back to Satan driving a Kia...

One thing I have noticed in the 130,000 miles I have driven is that every car has the same two things in common on their front. They have lights and an emblem. Every Toyota has the T with a circle around it. Every Mercedes has the Mercedes emblem. It's as if they are saying, "Watch out, it's more than just a car coming it's a (fill in the blank)."

Well one day I was driving and I saw a car behind me that looked snazzy. It was fancy. You know the kind of car your grandpa drives...a Jaguar. But it wasn't like any Jaguar I had seen before. And it was missing the jumping jaguar emblem. There was absolutely no name or decal on the front. So I slowed down and let the car pass to see what was going on. And as it passed I saw what it was. It was a KIA!!! No way! It looked like a Jaguar.

Kia is smart. Kia is deceptive. They know who they are and they know what consumers want. Consumers want Jaguars, not Kias. They want the name with the reputation, not the name with the Rio. So how do you get past that if you are the Kia bigshots? Well you design your car like a Jaguar and you remove the front emblem. Maybe people will fall so in love with the design they will not care who makes it. But at the end of the day you are driving home in a Kia. This is deception.

Satan is a jerk, but he is smart...kinda. He is deceptive. He wants to sell us the life that looks full, but at the end of the day is empty and broken.

He wants girls to believe that in order to get a guy to love them they need to look or act a certain way.

He wants guys to believe that they matter or don't matter because of what they do.

If we buy into the idea that what we do makes us valuable then Satan is stoked. He is throwing a party if we begin to believe that joy comes when others think we are special. Satan is trying to get us to forget that God LOVED us first.

With God, it's what we ALREADY have (love and acceptance in Him that lasts). With Satan, it's the lie that we don't have it, but we can get it by doing or being certain things. The lie isn't in how you obtain it. The lie from Satan is that you don't have it. But you do!

You are loved, accepted, stoked on, celebrated, and rejoiced over by God.

Grace and Peace