“Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me.” What is God’s desire for you? Take a moment to consider it. Ponder the question. Really think about it. Do not let the question simply pass-through like a passing thought but let it linger and stay awhile so that you can actually chew on the word, taste the question, savor its sweetness. So that taking some time to consider the question with special intention, you might extract God’s desire for you. As you consider it, let the thought inform you. As you think about it, let the thought instruct you. As you meditate on it, let the thought inspire you and as you ponder it, let the thought move you to awe and wonder. What is God’s desire for you? As you contemplate these words, consider how God, who is perfect and without need, creates out of a loving desire. God’s desire for you is love in the truest sense of a love that is indestructible, permanent, and forever. The kind of love that even knowing how creation will rebel and reject the hand that created it, still chooses to create for true love only desires love so it creates and recreates in love and restores in divine mercy. Love creates and forgives from the heart for true love is relentless in compassion, forgiveness, charity, and mercy. It truly only wills the greatest good for the other. Sin is an obstacle to love. Love is the remedy for sin. Sin destroys and takes apart. Love unites and makes new again. Sin causes everyone to suffer sadness and suffering sadness to despair. Love brings about joyful healing, and joyful healing brings gratitude, hope, and trust. If God desires only what is wholesome, good, and joyful for you and seeks only to offer you eternal happiness and perpetual peace with Him, then what does Satan desire for you? What does He will for you? Take some time to think about it. No sweetness here. The thoughts are dark. Its flavor bitter. Satan only wills what is contrary and opposite to God’s desire for you. If God wills only the greatest good for you then Satan only wills the greatest harm for you. Satan is a direct intrusion and obstacle to your happiness and the peace that only God can offer you. If God makes you His beloved child, then Satan tries to make you an orphan. If God desires you joy and happiness, then Satan robs you of joy and brings you only misery. Think about it.
