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When God Was a Genie in the Bible
Get ready to rub your leatherbound Bibles and make a wish.
The will of a genie is to fulfill the wishes of their human masters regardless if the intent is pure or evil. Usually, genies are limited to granting their masters a total of 3 wishes. Yet we have seen across media narratives that how we ask determines the actual outcome those wishes will manifest in reality.
Despite this essay’s ambitious title, God is not a genie. In reality, the relationship between mortal and immortal is reversed. Man is designed to do God’s will rather than God doing the will of man. When it is so, God grants us the desires of our hearts as they align with His purpose for our life.
If God were a genie granting us our most sinful desires, the world would die faster than expected as the Lord Jesus commented about the end: “there would be no flesh saved”(Matt. 24:22).
But the genie isn’t God. His name is Lucifer, or more notably, Satan.
When the devil tempted Jesus, briefly, we see the devil assume that Jesus would give in to the lust of the flesh. But Satan was not dealing with a regular Joe Schmoo who would easily succumb to such temptations.
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And…
