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"A good man who walks in God's love obtains favor from the Lord, but the man who receives it and become crafty becomes condemned by the Lord!" (Prov 12:2, Abi's Translation).
The great man of God C.S. Lewis said, "To Love is to be vulnerable." What a great statement of truth from the great man of God. When we want to have favor with God, there is no other way available than to walk the dangerous path of loving others with the unconditional Love of God and put ourselves in a place of vulnerability. God wants us to walk guileless as a dove, when we do it, by forgiving the fault of others who err against us daily (Matt 6:12), then God takes us to a higher place where the people around us may see a opportunity to exploit the vulnerability of the unconditional love that which we are operating in Christ Jesus. This is the nature of the snake in the negative sense, it sees a vulnerability in the fellow creatures and prey on it.
The greatest temptation we face during these times will be to use our rights to defend ourselves when we are oppressed by evil through people who do a bidding for Satan by them walking in their own fleshly ways thinking that they are wiser than the children of God who are harmless and walking under the sovereign hand of God. But the test from God, is for the promotion of the righteous and for the condemnation of those who do the bidding for Satan and his demons. When people act in malice against us and in deceit, we should never react. Instead we should remember, that vengeance belongs to God and that we should give our will and spirit in to the hands of God, and act the truth in reality that we are dead in Christ Jesus, as we know dead bodies have no reaction, whatever may be the evil that comes against it (Rom 12:19; 6:4-6).
As time moves on, we might seem to be the loser that the people who deceived us projected to be. But little do we know and realize, that a mighty favor from heaven suddenly comes over our lives after we choose to overcome evil with the good character of staying silent and harmless in spite of being deceived (Rom 12:21). O Praise the Lord! The Lord always repays evil done against his dear children back in the right time, so when humiliation, sorrow and sadness descends on those who had craftily deceived us, we should continue to walk in the character of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father by feeding our enemy through his hunger, by giving drink through his thirst, in so doing we heap coals of Holy Ghost fire on his or her head and give them a opportunity of a lifetime to humble themselves before the Lord and repent of their evil deeds (Rom 12:20). The positive attribute of serpent is that its wisdom of knowing what the opponent will do before even the enemy thinks, that kind of wisdom the Lord will give to his children when they walk in unconditional love. Such kind of foreknowledge of the plans of the crafty when exposed by the Lord before hand, it is to calm us down and create faith in us that the Lord is going to use the good character in us to overcome the evil character with which our enemy is operating, when the reality happens, that is when we come to know that the evil that happens to us is under the sovereign hand of God as a test for promotion and not demotion as we act out the character of the Lord and not react with our flesh. For those who act as our enemies, without knowing suddenly the Lord demotes them from his favor because they hated us for no reason except to exploit our vulnerability that they had seen in us because of our obedience to our God and Lord Jesus Christ (Matt 10:16).
"There is a silver lining that is there to notice in every dark cloud, and showers of blessing rain through every storm we face in life. So be positive and walk harmless as dove and wise as serpant at the same time, to obtain favor from the Lord that stays with you for eternity ahead!" — Abraham Israel
Much Blessings...
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