Genesis 20 Fear of Man is Satan’s tool. 

Over and over from Genesis three to Genesis 20 we have seen how sin corrupts and people do not learn. Abram did not! We must! First Abram left the land that God promised and went to Egypt in a time of famine. He lied about Sarai and Pharaoh caught him in that lie. Now Abram concocts that same lie again back in the Promised Land. He fudges the lie, Sarai is complicit and again Sarai pays the price. We want to scream at Abram and ask him why? There is a verse in Proverbs that explains the reason: the fear of man is a snare. [Prov 29:25] And Abram faced it with Abimelech. Then Abimelech asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?” Abram’s response is clear: “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.” 

Fear is the tool Satan uses when we fail to follow God’s explicit commands. He used it in the Garden with Eve and he used it again in the life of Abram and he uses it in our lives as well. Fear is the proper response to what is dangerous to us but when we allow the fear of others to encroach our mental or physical  space, it is wrong. 

Has Satan used the fear of man as his spear to cause you to not trust God? Repent of it and turn to God for times of refreshing.