Rather than wrestle incessantly with the Scripture Satan cited, Christ considered it sufficient simply to quote another Scripture and cling to it. In contrast, the way to send demons into a frenzy of malicious delight is to refuse to accept the rest of the Bible as sufficient and focus on an inadequate understanding of one or two Scriptures; arrogantly demanding a full explanation of obscure Scriptures before conceding the truth of all the other Scriptures that unambiguously insist on God’s goodness, selflessness, dependability, love of justice, and so on.

Once demons see that just one or two doubts is all it takes to undermine your faith, they will delight in you as a soft target and pour their united effort into keeping you focused on doubts and the arrogant stupidity of demanding full understanding of every Scripture and circumstance before you will put your faith in Christ.

The great temptation is to rely on our intellect to battle such attacks but the weapons of our warfare are not human but spiritual (cf 2 Corinthians 10:4; Ephesians 6:12-13; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 2:4-5; Zechariah 4:6; 1 Samuel 17:45,47). The way to win is not through argument but to rebuke the spirits behind the lies, stubbornly refuse to cave in to the doubts that incessantly scream at you, and keep clinging to the fact that God is so much more righteous than us that, as Jesus indicated, no one but God is truly good (Mark 10:18).

It is proper to seek God for deeper understanding but we must not make our determination to love and serve God conditional upon receiving instant answers that our finite minds can grasp. If all God’s ways were intelligible to us he would not be God but an imposter. God not our puny intellect must be our God.

Taken from Help When Doubt Knocks

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