If you trace human pain back to its beginning, you’ll eventually hear a single voice asking a single question:

“Did God really say…?”
Genesis 3:1

That was the enemy’s first strategy.
And it still is.

He doesn’t begin by tempting you to sin.
He begins by tempting you to doubt God’s goodness and his heart toward you.

The Bible says:

“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.”
Psalm 23:6

It did not say maybe, and it did not say only on good days.

It said surely.

The enemy wants to put a crack right there. He wants to make “surely” feel uncertain and make you suspect the One who loves you most.

If you must doubt someone, let it not be God.

Doubt the serpent’s voice. Doubt the lie that God is withholding, and reject the thought that you are forgotten or unloved.

Jesus settled this once and for all:

“He who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
John 14:9

If you want to know how God feels about you, watch Jesus. He healed the outcast, touched the unclean, fed the hungry, and lifted the broken.

That is God’s heart toward you.

The enemy wants you to question God.
At the cross, God proves you can trust Him.

The lie always starts with doubt; the truth always starts with Jesus.