O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psalm 34:8 (KJV) Sometimes trying in our own knowledge to make sense of the situations in our lives is exceedingly difficult. Circumstances that we have to deal with become hard for us to swallow, and as we fall back into our state of hopelessness we gag on what the natural world has for us. We seek salvation in our devices assuming that God may come into agreement with our next scheme, plan or theory to meet out natural needs. We act as though God is Ok as we seek Mammon [1] over Him [ 2]    But the devil, that God might be seen as a lair  preoccupies our minds with what we don’t have, over the  greatest  gift in the world which was given to us. We assume that because we are Christians we deserve something special from God, that because we have been in our own mind righteous that God is going to give us special favor. We don’t lie, steal of commit adultery, but ...