Yin and Yang?
Right and wrong?
Is that really what God and the Devil are? Arch Enemies?
God created everything... Everything!
He is All Powerful All present and All Knowing
That was the foreword, now the main part!
The world today is, as ever, filled with Human beings. We are perfect imperfections, filled with Good, but with great power to do bad. We are taught to love one another, yet grow feelings of Jealousy and hatred and act them out in numerous ways, whilst our love often lies hidden. We suffer from Lust and greed, wanting the very things we know are wrong, the very things we know are that of sin. The very people we love the most are the very ones we often hurt.
Why? the devil, satan, el diablo? or simply through free will? Or perhaps a mixture... This time of the year of course reminds us of Jesus being tempted in the desert by the Devil himself. Where he is tested, put through thirst and offered the oppurtunity for drink, hunger and offered bread. As with Jesus he doesn't force us to do bad, it is simply in giving us the oppurtunity, perhaps he changes our mind towards it but simply putting the chance in front of you is the deal maker! Tried and Tested!
But we ourselves often do this work for the devil is in you, we dare, bribe and cheat people into doing evil. We ourselves pass on oppurtunities for others. We are as bad as those who carry out the deed.
The story of Job shows intimately the work of the Devil. A defined story of Job being tested, under the supervision of God himself. God is simply judge, the Devil the prosecutor (as Alan Watts so bluntly puts it) and tests him. He gives him the oppurtunity to avenge the many problems that have been made in his life. But though he is destroyed more and more at each onset of tests, he refuses to falter, up until he is so bedraggled that he questions God himself. The God who then presents what I have already said, that He created everything and everything is as it should be! From then Job is awakened and blessed many times over.
As with Job it is down to us what we choose, Good or Evil. Luckily for us though the scales are biased! For you may say that on the one side we have God and the other the devil, but this is not so. For God created Everything, he is all powerful and all present! The devil is not equal he does not stand on the same level! The devil was created by God himself and is weak. Jesus is the one standing on the other side of the scales and if you choose to have Him at your side then you are winning throughout. You must prove yourself and choose carefully but you can win! Through God all is possible He is above all, on a level far beyond anyone or anything... for it is not God and the Devil it is most definitely God then the Devil!
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