Satan flew over the earth and found a victim, a good man he wanted to test with some fate and misery. So the story goes. And he asked God for permission to torment our good man Job.
It is no more astounding that God allowed it, than it is allowed for many others since.
God does not interfere with man’s thoughts, for to do so would crush him. Man would be no more.
Who then is this devil? And why is he allowed to do evil?
Is God hesitant to crush him or it?
Has creation run amok?
Is there really a character Lucifer, a fallen angel?
Is he really just a shade of ourselves?
All minds exist as an idea, ideas which reside in the consciousness of the most high.
To crush one, crushes them all, for it destroys the fabric of consciousness.
Your thoughts are most holy to God, for they are your life’s blood.
When Job was tested, he suffered greatly, losing his family, his home, his health. But though he lamented, Job never changed his mind about God. His will could not be broken.
God was always betting on Job. He always knew what he had in his man. He created Job that way.
It was Job who needed to learn what he was made of. When Satan lost the battle, Job was restored. Job lamented his ordeal, he pored through his mind, his emotions, his sorrow, and found his will.
The biblical tale is a metaphor. Job is every man and woman. The devil is doubt, the shadow man, who believes in failure. He must be talked to, he must be heard and seen, and only then can he come into the light and be healed. When Job examines his thoughts, he rids his body of their poison.
The Pope currently would like to distinguish the words in the Lord’s Prayer ‘Lead us not into temptation’, and change them to ‘do not let us fall into temptation.’
The Lord May lead us but it is we who follow.
Please read: The Circle of Infinity
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