What to fear?


As faithful, what is that we must fear? Do we fear the world? Do we fear science? Do we fear technology? Do we fear spiritual powers, devils? I am not sure if we should fear the world, as a man of sight and spiritual power could not fear the powerless blind collective, we call humanity. What is with us is mightier than what is with the world. Even the numerous Angels who protect us are just showoff, the heavenly father with the Son and the Holy Spirit watches us, protects us, and guide us, with the mighty hand of the mountain, which is above all mountains. Nobody is mightier, knowledgeable, powerful, and dedicated to the cause than the heavenly father and nobody takes his children from him.

The world is not there to scare us, the world is our farm and the people are blind, who do not know their right from their left. If the world is sinful, you should not be surprised because the public toilet is dirty. What do you expect, otherwise? What is surprising is that if there is no adequate light and salt in us to make us a solution to all sicknesses of the world. If the world sins, it is its nature and nothing is surprising about it. The real question is: why are they not seeing the light from us to guide them from their darkness and despair toward life under the lord? That is what is scary about this world. What is scary about this world is that we don’t look like our master, we don’t think like our master, we don’t live like our master, and the light in us is often mixed with darkness. That is what is scary about this world.

 

What about science and technology? Should we fear science and technology? It is not even worth talking about the level of stupidity, it is nothing but stupidity, around this issue. All religious simpletons of every age did play this stupidity forever and it is becoming boring to listen to it furthermore. Let me ignore this joke and let me focus on its underlying cause. The cause is conspiracy theories and fairytales, which are written in English and originating from the West. For some naive faithful in Ethiopia, fairytales of the Western World are taken as self-evident truths. Besides, they are without shame to repeat them in public media of the faith to the eye and ear of the world. Do not you know that after listening to this joke coming from your mouth, tech and science-literate unfaithful people will not take you seriously then after? You are destroying the potential spiritual birth and growth of some unfaithful, by your pure ignorance. The name of the heavenly father is insulted, in the mouth of the unfaithful, because of your inexcusable stupidity. This is the 21st century; there is no excuse in this age to be this naïve. Remember everything you listen to in the West is not always right. Otherwise, you will be lost in the issue of faith by not using your intelligence.

 

When the forefathers said BIBLE only, it means fairytales are not our guide but the BIBLE. When we say BIBLE only in Ethiopia, it means no books of a fairytale, written in the name of an angel or saint, is our guide. It does not mean our faith should be built on conspiracy theories of some intellectual abortion writing nonsense from his mother’s basement of the Western World. If the world is swimming in sin, our stupidity and naivety are not going to save it. After all the stupidity and naivety of Rome did not save Europe, it destroyed the faith of Europe. Can people think of us like the wind? Do they find it hard to understand us, because we have the heart of Jesus, the eye of Jesus, the ear of Jesus, and the mind of Jesus? No, we are laughing stock of the lost word because we have the ear, eye, heart, mind, and naivety of some intellectual abortion writing fairytale in his mother’s basement in his/her middle age. Our light is darkness. Teach the light, BIBLE, not your darkness, Western fairytales.

 

What about devils? Yes, we should fear devils because as the lord works 24/7 to keep us safe, the devils are working 24/7 to destroy us. But should we be shaking in fear of devils 24/7? No. We should be holding tight the hand of our heavenly father because he is mightier than all of them. Devils are dangerous but we can win them, with certainty, not by fearing them but by benefiting from the protection of our heavenly father. We can defeat the devil because nobody can defeat the heavenly father and Jesus Christ is our shepherd. Our shepherd and our shield never sleep and never rest in over watching us; so we can sleep without worry like a baby sleeps in the hand of his mother.

 

Jesus came to blind the devils who can see and to give sight to the blind, us. Our light is the Holy Spirit and nobody knows the heart of God which guides the spirit of the lord. If we are led by the Holy Spirit, even devils are blinded in front of us. If we are led by the spirit of the heavenly father, the Holy Spirit, even devils will not know where we are coming and where we are going. If the Holy Spirit led us, the devils would be nothing but a confused goat lost in the middle of a highway, running from here to there in complete confusion. The mind of the lord is a confusing highway of truth and power, and no one can understand it. What is beautiful is we have heart of the lord. So devil is not something to fear, because we have God. After all, who can fight the almighty?

 

So what is left to fear? We should fear God. Without God, we are nothing. We should fear God as a child fears his/her parents; because without his/her parents, a child is left alone in the middle of the cruel world to fight the invisible army of enemy, devils, who are united in spirit to destroy him/her. What should make us fearful is the lord being disappointed in us. What should scare us is the lord taking his protection from us. What should scare us is the lord taking his Holy Spirit from us. What should scare us is a life of sin that we are accustomed to. What should scare us is our distance from God. The only thing scary is the chance that we may disappoint the lord for long and the lord may lose his patience with us.

 

If you must be scared, be scared about the lord giving up on you. So seek what is pleasing in the sight of the lord and try to do what is pleasing in the sight of the lord. If you must be wise, be wise around the lord. Just think 24/7 not about what makes you happy but what will make the lord happy. You do what is pleasing in the sight of your boss. Your boss is bounded in his/her capacity and probably is also sinful. What about doing what is pleasing in the sight of the lord? When you wake up, just think about what will please the lord today and what things you can do today to make the lord smile on you. Who is mightier: your boss or the Lord? Is it not odd that you will think 24/7 to gain the favor of your boss but you never remember the expectations of Jesus on you after Sunday sermon? Really, what is wrong with you? This is scary and if you must fear, fear your ways. Then use the fear to let you grow toward the ways of the Lord.

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