When Your Ignorance Is God's Bliss

At the crux of the matter is time. You have a sin nature. As Adam’s offspring, you tend toward sin before holiness. Therefore, you have to be taught to live holy, and God has to inform you of your purpose because you are not born knowing it.

Satan—because you can’t live your life as if he doesn’t exist—tempts your sin nature, a.k.a. flesh knowing that any moment of flesh gratification is time wasted. He uses your innate sin nature as his weapon of mass distraction. He understands that time wasted is God-ordained purpose unfilled.

But the good news is that there is no temptation that is uncommon to Man according to 1 Corinthians 10:13. In other words, Satan cannot create a temptation in your mind. He cannot make you into a drug user of his own volition, for example. He can only really tempt you with that that your senses have gleaned before—that that he knows has gratified your flesh before. This also means that you don’t miss what you’ve never had.

When is your ignorance God’s bliss? When you know nothing of alcohol consumption. When you know nothing of drug use. When you maintain your virtue until marriage.

Remember, at the heart of the matter is time, and your existence in the earth is terminal. God is elated in that your life undistracted by the flesh-gratifying temptations of this world increases the likelihood of you fulfilling your divine purpose in the advancement of His kingdom in the earth.