This post will be quite a bit different than the last few, but perhaps
even more important to pass along.
Getting out and exploring God’s creation with binoculars and cameras,
communing with God, is still a priority. I get fewer photos during this quieter
time of year, but still manage to get enough for my Nature Nuggets blog. There have been lots of changes recently!
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In addition, I’ve been doing lots of reading various books, including
the Bible, along with lots of contemplative/prayer time now that there is so
much time available in my aloneness. So many thoughts go running through my
mind, and I want to be sure whatever actions I take they will be the result of
God’s spirit speaking to me. And sometimes I begin to wonder: how do I know it
will be God’s spirit speaking and not the devil? The devil is a mastery of
subterfuge, masking as the angel of light, and working all the time to convince
people what we are hearing are the results of God speaking, when at least in
some cases, the devil is actually the one, leading us down his path, and away
from God.
The devil is very, very real. I had generally believed this most of my
life, but it was demonstrated very realistically with Marie and I about 3
decades ago. We experienced something that we have never shared with anyone, as
it was very personal, but in hindsight, it couldn’t have been more real. As
time went on, the devil’s tactics showed up in Marie’s life, and perhaps less
decisively, in mine. Thankfully God
rescued Marie from the path she was being led on, which had been initiated in her very early life. Of course her passing has
left a huge hole in my life, and it is even more important that I recognize
God’s spirit speaking to me, and follow His direction. I couldn’t have ever
imagined the path of this stage of my life’s journey, and I know He has some
amazing blessings in store ahead of me. But as I said, I find that His voice
isn’t always as clear and distinctive as I need or want. And that’s where faith
comes in, as His ways are absolutely better than mine!
There’s no question that the world is becoming a darker and darker
place, as the impacts of the devil are becoming more and more obvious in the
world of politics, wars, rumours of wars, in various three letter world organizations
and others, as their goal, at least to their inner circle, is to control the
world’s population to the point of reducing it. In reality, many of these
rulers, organizations, leaders, etc., are puppets of the devil. It has been the
devil’s ultimate goal, to destroy you and I, God’s creations, ever since he was
tossed out because he was jealous of God and wanted to become like Him. But God
said no, and expelled him. After he appeared as the serpent in the Garden of
Eden and seduced Adam and Eve, he was relegated to crawling around in the dust,
and he has been doing that ever since.
Our earthly bodies are made from the dust, and it is exactly the place
where/how the devil has been crawling around doing his utmost to destroy us. It
is imperative that, given all the things we are inundated with in the media, on
screens, etc., we seek God’s truth in everything, and not put much truth or
good in anything else. The devil is using everything possible to bring us down,
and as AI continues to infiltrate our lives, we need to be all the more open to
God’s truth and His speaking to our hearts! Certainly AI will be used to
benefit humanity in some way, but unfortunately just enough to convince people
that it can’t be all bad and therefore becoming more accepting of it. But
BEWARE! It will/is being for evil intent already, and that will only increase
as humanity becomes more accepting of it!
As stated in 1 John, 5: 19 …the whole world is under control of the
evil one. Fortunately God has ultimate control, and is holding off on the
return of Jesus to give more and more people an opportunity to turn to Him.
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