I notice something in Genesis 3 this morning. Satan tempts Eve into thinking she needs something she already has and already is. We read this in verse 5 as Satan’s grand temptation to lure Eve into eating the forbidden fruit: “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Eve was already made in the image of God. She was already like God. She was also already in paradise.
Satan’s craftiness here reveals a strategy we must learn. We have “all things in Christ” (1 Cor. 3:21); we have all we need (2 Cor. 9:8). When you feel tempted, ask yourself if the thing you seek you already have in Christ.