Two personalities are interested in you, and each of them desperately wants you to serve them. The two personalities are God and Satan. God and Satan are not in competition with each other since Satan is a creature of God and under the power of God, but each of them is competing for your soul. God, who created you, has the power to make you serve Him, but because He acts in love, He has given you the free will to choose to serve or ignore Him. Satan hates you and wants to enslave you, but God denied him the power to force you to do his will. So, neither God nor Satan will force you to serve them. The choice of who you serve is your prerogative, and no one will take that from you. Yielding to God is yielding to life, and yielding to Satan is yielding to death. The choice is yours. “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live” (Deut. 30:19).
