My son, in this article, I want to write down one thing, let you know “what is LOVE?”, and also how the Evil One pretends to be an angel of light. When I listen to those thoughts, I want to share with you what will be my spiritual situation.
In the company I work for, there is a senior director who likes to argue and turns things upside down. Something wrong he or his team did, he can say, “I don’t know. Why didn’t you inform me earlier?” Once, the CTO and I had to have a meeting with him to discuss something. As a subordinate, I just treated myself as an observer and didn’t think I would have anything to say. But the more I listened, the more I realized that the director could put the Annual Information Security Training every employee must do, saying that no one informed him and his subordinates. They were not being trained to follow those policies. There are such people in the world, but hearing about them is not as shocking as experiencing it in person. Not only was I shocked, but I also felt disgusted with this kind of person from the bottom of my heart. Later, during the meeting, the more I listened, the angrier I became, so I began to use his way to treat him. Because I hated his attitude, I confronted him mercilessly and said:
“You didn’t provide me training to do what you want, I just follow company policy.”
In the end, he and his boss were speechless and could only follow the company’s information security policy. After the meeting, in retrospect, I felt that I was a little aggressive and didn’t leave room for the director. But at that time, a voice appeared in my heart and said to me:
“Well done!”
I thought it was the Holy Spirit who said it to me, so I no longer questioned my unreserved attitude. Also, I had a little thought that what I had done, even the Holy Spirit agreed that it was right. After that, this incident often reappeared in my mind, making me feel a little complacent. Son, but don’t forget that the words of the Holy Spirit will never contradict the words of God in the Bible. Colossians 4:5-6 tells us:
“Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.
Your speech must always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.”
So the voice that said to me, “Well done!” was not from God. You can interpret those voices are the result of my self-righteous thoughts. Also, you can treat those voices as the evil ones pretending to be an angel of light, just to make me think I am right. Even though those voices go against God’s will, they still make me feel good about myself. Make me have no remorse and think I am standing in justice, but I am far from God’s will.
After this incident, I found that I often had other people’s wrongdoing come to my mind. Even when I knelt down to read the Bible and pray, I was often attracted by the various thoughts that came to my mind. Son, this is a proof of what God said in Genesis 4:7 is correct:
“If you do well, will your face not be cheerful? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
Although I had this kind of experience before, this time it was only after the following event that I came to my senses.
That Saturday afternoon, I was in the backyard trimming the trees between my neighbor and my house, and then I remembered that my neighbor had done something that took me a while to deal with. At that time, I remembered she often said that she did not want the trees between our houses to be trimmed too low, which would affect her privacy from her house. For some reason, at that moment in my heart, an idea appeared, which meant this:
“You got me into trouble for a while without consulting me first, and you didn’t want me to trim the trees low. I just want to trim down the trees on my side! To express my dissatisfaction!”
At that time, I just felt that this idea was not wrong, so I agreed with it. As a result, when I was intoxicated with expressing my dissatisfaction and cutting branches, a piece of the branch I was cutting was impaled into the shoe on my left foot and woke me up immediately from my “revenge”. I pulled out the branch, only to find that there were some needle-like thorns on the branch. One of the sharp thorns pierced the surface of the shoe and inserted about half an inch into my foot. The moment it was pulled out, crimson blood flowed out of the shoe hole. I hurried back to the garage and took off my left shoe and sock. Only then did I see that the wound was bleeding from a major artery in the middle of the foot. To stop the bleeding, I pressed my index finger on the artery. Two fist-sized bloodstains were on the ground before the wound stopped bleeding. After the bleeding was stopped, I saw the small needle-like wound, in the middle of the artery. The width of the artery was less than one-tenths of an inch. Why was it so coincidental? I don’t know why but I had a strange feeling in my heart as if I saw in my heart that I was indulging in venting my dissatisfaction when I was pruning, and then the branch was so cleverly nailed to my shoe, which woke me up. Just by curiosity, I asked God in my heart, “Lord, was that you?”
Then, a small voice sounded from nowhere inside my heart:
“And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accordance with his will, will receive many blows,”
Son, who likes to be disciplined for doing wrong? And I asked myself, was this just a coincidence and not a discipline from God? At that time, the tiny voice in my heart reappeared, saying:
“Even your hair has been counted.”
It was only then that my heart woke up. Since my hair has also been counted by the Lord, and the Heavenly Father had answered me twice by the Holy Spirit. My little injury was not a coincidence!
For some reason, it only lasted until Sunday morning, when I knelt down and prayed and read the Bible, I remembered that I had not confessed to the Lord for what happened yesterday. So I asked the Lord to forgive me. Because when I knelt down, the wound on my left foot was still painful, so when I worshipped God at home, I hesitated whether I could still kneel and worship God.
When I asked the Lord in my heart, a tiny voice appeared, saying:
“You can. Don’t be afraid.”
So I knelt down and worshipped God in faith. Gradually, I couldn’t feel the pain in my feet. In the beginning, it could be explained as numbness caused by the lack of blood circulation. Later, I even stood up and didn’t feel hurt anymore. At that time, I was full of thanks to God! After I finally finished worshipping God, my tears flowed down quietly when you and your mom were not around. Although I was disciplined by God, the pain of the wound disappeared less than a day after I admitted my mistake. This is just an isolated example and cannot be generalized, but it is an iron-clad fact that my wound will no longer be painful in less than a day.
My son, you need to keep a few things in mind…
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