I woke up with noise all around me and overheard somebody praying, casting and binding of the devil. The question that disturbed me apart from my peaceful sleep that was interrupted and may be the creator of this piece I am writing this morning, where is this fight between good and evil start?
"The kingdom of heaven suffer violent and it is taken by force" and "we struggle not against flesh and blood but against principality and power and wickedness in high places". Quotations like this and others that follows make me wonder at times whether there are two forces that created the universe and are struggling to see who owns it. The way and manner people vibrate and shout with such gusto make me ask how powerful is this devil? And the thing that puzzle me the most is when asked to pray for what we want voices are mild but when asked to come AGAINST any power that is stopping them, a aa the whole place becomes litted with fire and the loud of voice echoes even far beyond the heavens. May be it had produced results, I do not judge it and won't condemn it or is it only what we know and had been taught to us. Could they be another way? Is it really the teaches of Jesus?
I had been besets by this questions for years and I invite you to look at some of the assumptions I have come up with. In the beginning the bible and most spiritual literatures taught that the world was filled with darkness. Is this darkness evil? If you say yes to that it means that there are two forces that create the universe and God seizes to be the source of all things, this is one possibility. There is another, the darkness is uncertainty, the kind we suffer when we look for answer for a problem, the same that make scientist do what they call groping in the dark. This possibility is calling for clarity and may be that is why the Creator said let there be light, let there be clarity, let there be understanding and it have been called many names break through, the Aha experience, when the answer bust through our eyes. We know how it feels like to get there, joy, fulfilment and gratification fill our mind. If this happens is darkness evil? If it is what is the solution to it? Jesus said the light has come and darkness has disappear the only thing we do to darkness is to simple shine forth the light. How? Jesus said I am the light of the world and you are the light of the world. Simply meaning that when we recognise that we are the light darkness disappears, Jesus said let your light shine.
Another look at darkness comes in the form of question is it necessary for us to go through it? Remember I am only looking at possibilities, so I don't intent to take you away from what have been serving you. I just employ you to have an open mind to my questions and assumptions if you like to call it that. The text of the psalm said "even though I pass through the valley of darkness(death) I fear no evil, for thou are with me". Take time to ponder why the palmist experienced such, could the Divine permit such? Is there a need for such? a possible answer is you cannot know light until you pass through darkness as Deepark Chopra said that a man born blind do not know the meaning of darkness because he has not seen light. Could it be that opposite makes us appreciate the other part and may not necessary be evil? Jesus said do not resist evil mat.5vs39, he always want us to shine light on evil. I have tried to search scripture to see where the master fought evil with the gusto we use today, I have not found and if anyone do I am willing to learn.
Please don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say that evil don't exist. It does and it is a destructive. It is turning away from the light and we all know what happens when we intentionally turn off the light do to us. It is the same as evil. It come as a result of not shining light or letting light shine on our dark path and when one persist on that the effect is huge, we are aware that humanity is a collective whole so anything that affect one part, affects the others.
Opposite gives us the opportunity to see both part of a coin and give us the power of choice, good becomes the intentional moving towards light which is the birth of life. Evil is the intentional resistance to light and unfortunately so is the birth of death and all its attributes. Emphasis should be put on the word intention because it is key. I only problem had and still on how we approach the dispelling of evil.
When the prophet Elisha was pursued and surrounded, his servant filled with fear said to his master that they are doomed, his master made God open his eyes to the abundance of good around him. Could it be that what they had made us focus is what is making us use this approach? Could it be that some see like the servant of Elisha and said the world is evil and we have to do something about it(if God don't care) really fast and powerfully and immense all their energy into it. Or is their those who like Elisha have the KNOWING that good(GOD) always out number evil not matter what it appears to be and rest in that assurance just like that of the palmist( I will fear no evil for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me).
Like the psalm 23, could it be that there the journey through the dark side could lead to a prepared table, an anointed head and a cup over flowing? If you say yes, then maybe our judgement and approach to evil need to be change and if no then at least you read this and when it comes a time when what you believe no longer serve you, you may take a look at this again. Namastar"The kingdom of heaven suffer violent and it is taken by force" and "we struggle not against flesh and blood but against principality and power and wickedness in high places". Quotations like this and others that follows make me wonder at times whether there are two forces that created the universe and are struggling to see who owns it. The way and manner people vibrate and shout with such gusto make me ask how powerful is this devil? And the thing that puzzle me the most is when asked to pray for what we want voices are mild but when asked to come AGAINST any power that is stopping them, a aa the whole place becomes litted with fire and the loud of voice echoes even far beyond the heavens. May be it had produced results, I do not judge it and won't condemn it or is it only what we know and had been taught to us. Could they be another way? Is it really the teaches of Jesus?
I had been besets by this questions for years and I invite you to look at some of the assumptions I have come up with. In the beginning the bible and most spiritual literatures taught that the world was filled with darkness. Is this darkness evil? If you say yes to that it means that there are two forces that create the universe and God seizes to be the source of all things, this is one possibility. There is another, the darkness is uncertainty, the kind we suffer when we look for answer for a problem, the same that make scientist do what they call groping in the dark. This possibility is calling for clarity and may be that is why the Creator said let there be light, let there be clarity, let there be understanding and it have been called many names break through, the Aha experience, when the answer bust through our eyes. We know how it feels like to get there, joy, fulfilment and gratification fill our mind. If this happens is darkness evil? If it is what is the solution to it? Jesus said the light has come and darkness has disappear the only thing we do to darkness is to simple shine forth the light. How? Jesus said I am the light of the world and you are the light of the world. Simply meaning that when we recognise that we are the light darkness disappears, Jesus said let your light shine.
Another look at darkness comes in the form of question is it necessary for us to go through it? Remember I am only looking at possibilities, so I don't intent to take you away from what have been serving you. I just employ you to have an open mind to my questions and assumptions if you like to call it that. The text of the psalm said "even though I pass through the valley of darkness(death) I fear no evil, for thou are with me". Take time to ponder why the palmist experienced such, could the Divine permit such? Is there a need for such? a possible answer is you cannot know light until you pass through darkness as Deepark Chopra said that a man born blind do not know the meaning of darkness because he has not seen light. Could it be that opposite makes us appreciate the other part and may not necessary be evil? Jesus said do not resist evil mat.5vs39, he always want us to shine light on evil. I have tried to search scripture to see where the master fought evil with the gusto we use today, I have not found and if anyone do I am willing to learn.
Please don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say that evil don't exist. It does and it is a destructive. It is turning away from the light and we all know what happens when we intentionally turn off the light do to us. It is the same as evil. It come as a result of not shining light or letting light shine on our dark path and when one persist on that the effect is huge, we are aware that humanity is a collective whole so anything that affect one part, affects the others.
Opposite gives us the opportunity to see both part of a coin and give us the power of choice, good becomes the intentional moving towards light which is the birth of life. Evil is the intentional resistance to light and unfortunately so is the birth of death and all its attributes. Emphasis should be put on the word intention because it is key. I only problem had and still on how we approach the dispelling of evil.
When the prophet Elisha was pursued and surrounded, his servant filled with fear said to his master that they are doomed, his master made God open his eyes to the abundance of good around him. Could it be that what they had made us focus is what is making us use this approach? Could it be that some see like the servant of Elisha and said the world is evil and we have to do something about it(if God don't care) really fast and powerfully and immense all their energy into it. Or is their those who like Elisha have the KNOWING that good(GOD) always out number evil not matter what it appears to be and rest in that assurance just like that of the palmist( I will fear no evil for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me).
Like the psalm 23, could it be that there the journey through the dark side could lead to a prepared table, an anointed head and a cup over flowing? If you say yes, then maybe our judgement and approach to evil need to be change and if no then at least you read this and when it comes a time when what you believe no longer serve you, you may take a look at this again. Namastar
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