Providence and Satan

God's care of His creatures, shown by natural blessings and daily mercies, is called Providence. Those who are satisfied with this bare knowledge of God are in great danger of not discovering the workings of Satan. Such are in danger, even though they may have knowledge of the truth of God in Christ, revealed by the Scriptures.
This danger arises from the ever-flowing goodness and bountifulness of God, "for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." He is pledged by the gracious promise under the Noah covenant that "seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
Satan can originate nothing of himself that is different from himself—"he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44.
Satan seeks to take advantage of God's providence, which He shows in long-suffering mercy and grace to His creatures, and use it to work against Him. He makes this goodness of God a point of his attack through the active wickedness of fallen human nature. This evil nature supplies a link to him in his enmity to further discredit God and His love, so that mankind "glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful." Human selfishness, too, being what it is, will abuse these external mercies so abundantly supplied, and in this way lend its hand willingly or unwillingly to this craft of the devil.