Every level has his devil Sevdaliza)
My God, this wise woman uttered these words and they sound almost humanisticly. Every task has its obstacles and the more difficult something is, the bigger the problems to be solved. Kind of. But it just so happens that lately I have been dealing quite intensively with people who, inspired by their faith, attribute all setbacks, all problems, everything that fails, all obstacles very directly to the devil, and that seems to me to be a bit too much of a good thing.
After all, an earthquake, a mouse being eaten by an owl, a day when things don't work out that way, it seems to me too much credit for the devil to attribute everything to him. Life on earth, evolution, the daily routine are also simply characterized by things that do not go well, by failures, by difficulties, that is also just part of earthly life, isn't it?
Would You like to comment on this?
I like to do so, my son.
Indeed, it is too much honour for the devil to attribute all
difficulties to that being. "Shit happens", We'll just say this plainly.
And you've actually already answered yourself. Sometimes something negative or
a disease is a necessity or a blessing.
But of course there is always more to say about it.
I would like to focus very specifically on behalf of Sevdaliza's remark
to the performance by a man of a good deed, which is pleasing to God and brings
man closer to God. This then generates the devil's hatred of this step. For the
devil wants to take man away from God.
When people do a good deed, they are automatically visited by the devil. This concerns both believing and unbelieving people. The devil does not like to see good deeds done. And he will try to punish them, by a scratch on a car, by a glass that falls over, by an unexpected setback, by a disappointing encounter. And it happens that people immediately see the connection, but they may draw wrong conclusions.
They do something good and then experience something unpleasant and tend to conclude, you see, I am too good for this world, or you can better be selfish.
But it's really better if man does good, anyway.
Yet the spiritual world prefers that the creature be called by its name. We prefer that man, (but it requires wisdom when that can be sighed and when not) then says "Oh the devil wants to make it difficult for me, that childish being, well then I will do even harder good deeds, he will not get me down under". And God would rather not see that man then flees even harder into egoism, because that is a dead end.
The moral of the story is that a person should not be unsuspecting.
If one does good, one gets opposition, but that
opposition must encourage a person to do even more good deeds. That is the
spiritual way of man, and God likes to see that. It is thus a great guide to life, that one should
expect that the greater the act, the more difficult the task, the greater the
opposition. The opposition is just part of it and one can wait for that and one
really should not be stopped by it.
Sevdaliza is blessed.
My blessings to you all
*Dutch TV program (VPRO) August 8, 2021
No 517
