Those little thieves in your head can really destroy your faith; and they do it so much like a magic trick that at the end you are left totally unaware of what even happened!!
I was surprised at the slick move that the devil plays, and now that I know, that little pipsqueak will not be given a chance!
Well…*I’m wondering if what I did was right* I wrote it as a story and I think you would enjoy it if you read it slowly…
The characters in the story:
Place: Johnson’s mind
Cast:
Mother – the Heart
Father – the Mind
Child – A newborn hope or wish
Thieves – Satan’s thoughts directed at us OR our own reasoning/doubts OR people who discourage our hope… basically anything that can destroy our faith by words or actions.
It was a busy street, and lots of thoughts made their way in and out of the main city square, the hotspot at Johnson’s mind. Among them were some of the happy thoughts of a newborn hope which had had just arrived. And just as with any hope, there needed to be faith fed to it to keep it alive and well and so, Johnson’s mind was busy providing the food so important for the newborn hope to survive and grow…
And for getting faith, one needed to do some hard work to earn it.
It involved the job of hearing the WORD of GOD; praying about it and believing that GOD would provide for it; that it would come true and making plans for it, and implementing those plans!
And that is the food upon which a newborn or a growing hope feeds for it to be alive and become fully mature and fit for the real world.
And so, Father Mind and Mother Heart both went to their daily task of gathering the essential daily food for their little baby hope…
But the evil thief and baby-killer was hiding close by and was watching every move that the two were making to provide the faith for the little baby. And he waited for the just the right time to either snatch the baby and run, or cunningly steal the all-important food little by little so that the baby would starve to death! But his tricks are old and well documented in the all-time best-seller ‘The Holy Bible’. An entry in it clearly declares, “The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy!”
So just as the two proud parents, the heart and mind went about getting engrossed and occupied with the daily tasks of life; the thief waited for the right opportune time…
When the mind and heart are crowded with thoughts!
So, as Johnson was washing his clothes (he is a good boy you know!), the thief came in during the peak hour and disguised himself to be a part of the neighbourhood (just another thought in the mind) and he posed as an innocent looking thought and very casually asked…
“Are you fully sure that your hope will come true??”
Mother Heart replied without even blinking, — “Yes.”
Father Mind, thought on what was said, and after he applied his logic, replied, “Well, something wrong can also happen, there is a chance, that failure can …”
And just as he was saying that! The thief had quietly snatched that immensely precious faith unnoticed!! And he tried to make his escape back into the same crowd of thoughts that he came in.
BUT THIS TIME, the Spirit of the Almighty GOD who was given complete authority over the family knew this fully well and alerted both of them immediately.
This is what The Spirit told them:
What is faith? –It’s the being sure of hope. -Heb 11:1 (NCV)
So my dear, what does Satan need to do to rob your faith in broad daylight?
He needs to make you unsure, unsure of your hopes, your calling and GOD-given purpose in life, your dreams and ambitions. The moment that the mind acknowledges that there is a possibility of failure, it becomes unsure of the promises of GOD. And that destroys your faith!!!
And they realized that the precious little food of faith that they had worked for was missing!!! And this realization opened their eyes and they snatched back that faith from the thief’s hands and drove him away. And so… their little baby hope was strengthened that day and grew a little bit more and the shine on his little face became brighter that day.
THE END
Isn’t that a nice story? Pls do send your comments.
Even a simple question like “How will this happen?” that you might ask yourself pretty often can make you stumble in your faith.
Be sure. Be sure. Be sure.
-In HIS luv… JC
