Use Your Will, Not Your Momplices
When we strive to reach a destination, we run into obstacles. If we take the wrong path, we will get nowhere or worse. If we are successful in our pursuit of the goal, we reach it eventually. If we stay on the path, we will reach our goals for yet higher achievement. A celebration is an assurance that all goals are reachable. If you have taken the time to calculate a destination, you are usually rewarded with a happy and comprehensive end result.
When we take the path of our own accord, there is no guarantee of arrival. We may get disoriented, or we may throw caution to the wind and just go through life acting without a strategy or economic blueprints. When we finally turn to give up the path, the achievement we have intended may be long gone.
History is replete with heroes and heroines who gave up the good fight. Why do good people give up their strives? Why are men and women dying in foreign lands because they chose the wrong path? Men do not naturally brandish themselves as brave. The strain of achievement may brandish a man, but the quality of the strain counts. There is a strain of achievement that every man content and his attitude judge his effort’s quality.
It is better to risk one’s life than one’s peace. The strain of achievement in a man is greater than a petty quarrel. The noble nature seeks an enduring relationship with Truth. It seeks Truth, and when it finds her, she is bound to reward him. The noble nature will not rest until she finds her reward.
When man faults his fellow man, he is insinuating his own imperfections. There is a common fault from which all men suffer. This one star, this universal failing, is the root of all the other troubles in life. The fault occurs when a man thinks he is the star of the world and not the rest of creation. This will find its way to all the other accidents of life.
If we exclude anything, we will find that nothing is good or bad; it just is. Good and evil are just qualities that we choose to bring to anything that we experience. Our attitude brings them to the people we come into contact with.
When we want to do good things, we should find something good to do. When we want to do bad things, we should leave that to the evil part of ourselves. The things that we do because we want to or feel like doing are not the things that come from the universal urge to do good. The resistance to good is built into the nature of the evil part of man. This makes it virtually impossible to do anything well. Unless God has predestined us for a certain kind of experience, we will find that the nature of the evil part of man will resist any good impulse made by the good part of man.
If a man is bad, it is because he has a bad heart, and the nature of a bad heart is resistance to good. His very nature is at odds with the nature of goodness. We can change the heart of a man, but we cannot change the nature of his heart. At best, we can make him aware of his wrong ways, and perhaps by punishing him when he gets to the proper notice, or by casting him out of society, or by turning him into a hermit, or by some other such unnatural procedure. In this way, we only Dis nails him to a stake. We do not nail him to the cross and lose him to his own device.
Good and evil are both in us. It depends on our will and which one we submit to. Which one gets applied to our lives is a question between the ears. Which one is the real question? Can we look, in a moment, at the two of them side by side and see who is winning the battle?
Do Christians really understand where this whole idea of evil originates from? Today more than ever, the overwhelming majority of people on Earth are Christians. Yet few Christians see the whole root of evil. The trick is to see where it all began.
Christians may do hand Signs when they are tempted for evil. These are natural signs that can come about through immoral conversations, fights, or other temptations. A common punishment is to say the words: “You will be the Lord’s” to a person when they suddenly say “Allah” instead. In other words, you are saying that you are a better Muslim than he is.
