A stage his being set up...

As a bible student, not scholar or critic just one who takes it as it is and believes it is the actual revelation of God, the actual account of the unfolding of His relationship with mankind, the display of his passion and of his love in the creation process, the heartbreaking disappointment of mans betrayal and the continuing saga of God's attempt at restoring man's right relationship with himself, I often find myself as an actor/spectator on a much larger stage. At times I get so caught up in daily living, like right now with our financial situation I would rather crawl under a rock and not have to face the whoe's of our modern society where our lives are controlled by our power to consume. When that power is slowly striped away there is inevitably that sense of failure and despondency that wants to fill that gap , even has a believer you may experience these feelings. Many believers in the bible had episodes like that, most famous coming to mind is David , in many psalms he expound on his despair but in the majority of cases if not in all he will always remember God's benevolence toward him and then his countenance restored. It is his belief in the goodness of God that keeps him going. Goodness we could say is an attribute of God, it is what He is, but more then that it is the very fabric of who he is. It is His intrinsic goodness that commands God to not destroy mankind completely in two occasion though he knew exactly the evil he could do to it. It is against that goodness of God that I believe that stage is being set, it is being set against His self-determination of using all His attributes weaved in goodness toward mankind, which has enraged Satan, the stage is being set and it is against good an evil, it's always been about good and evil, man just knew good before Eve was tempted and tempted Adam. The centre of the garden the centre of life itself, good and evil , choose well my friend because that is truth, God is all good.