Do people always go against what God says is for their own good?
From the human side, people always find themselves going the opposite direction from what God says is for their own good. Since Eden, human nature resists God's prohibitions; Satan urges disobedience to what God forbids and neglect of what God commands. That contrary path brings the world's heartache.
Les explains that human nature mirrors a child told not to go through a door: the moment the one who told him turns his back, the child wants to look behind it. In the same way, as soon as God says 'Thou shalt not steal' or 'Thou shalt not commit adultery,' human nature says, 'I'm going to try it.' He reminds us that from the Garden of Eden, when Satan approached Adam and Eve and sin entered, Satan became God's greatest adversary. Everything God says is best not to do, Satan says do it; everything God says is best to do, Satan says don't do it, and the world asks why you should. Les says it is almost amusing yet true that everything God told the human race is for our own good, but from the human side we always find ourselves going the opposite direction. The heartache in the world today exists because people have gone contrary to what God set down as our best. God knows what is best, and no society can survive by totally going contrary to the Ten Commandments, because they are basic.