This a funny old reflection that came to my mind while reflecting on our spiritual struggles as humans with devils and the old souls we have that tempt us to chase and worry about shiny yet invaluable things in life.
I funnily saw it as game between god and the devil, between
the old souls in us and the born of light souls that god would love to help us
get. Between Superficial and short-term pleasures of life and the long-lasting
inner peace, light, and joy of the same life.
In this game, the devil rebelled against god to prove that
he can give happiness to humans and most importantly to prove to god that he
put too much love and hope in a useless creature called humans.
Now, everyone of us is a target and a player in this game.
You pick a team and either watch and cheer or you play for your team depending
on your level of self awareness.
The fun part about this ongoing game is you can always
change teams, the game is fair in that sense, they human players go wherever
their consciousness and hearts tell them to go. The devil will always offer
perks and bounces and so does god.
Anger, tough trials, painful experiences, and disappointment
can lead you to leave god’s team for a bit or always. Forgiveness, genuine love,
and repentance can bring you back to god’s team.
I shifted teams a lot, I lacked enough faith and trust in
god as a good loving coach under the stress of tough tests I failed because I
was weak inside and untrained and yet thirsty. I thought he is too harsh in his
ways to bring me from being just a team fan cheering to the field, I left many
times. The devil offered me significant yet quickly evaporating pleasures “experiences”.
But even for a bad team player or fan, the memorable joys of
cheering or playing for god never left me so I always ask to go back, and he
never got upset or rejected me.
No god loves all his team players and supporters but a good
player who scores or works hard to score against the darkness, god will always support them, even when they
do a bad move or they get in a bad accident while playing god will always want
to keep them in and most importantly improve them to be a stronger humans and
players in this eternal game.
Playing for both teams, let me tell you the difference
between both coaches, The master of darkness is very pragmatic and ego centered, he doesn’t care whatsoever about his players or fans, he will exploit
them with harmful drugs, painkillers and boosters to keep them playing and
scoring even if it will kill their body and soul very quickly who cares. He consumes
their hearts, and souls and consequently minds with illusions to go on and
on.
On the other hand, God is loving and caring, he will
train and support while considering one’s capacity and current strength level, he
is the god of broken hearts and tired souls, He heals, guides, and improves
them. It’s a game and both teams are trying to win it, but as a loving
caring coach god will never risk killing you for the game he will feed you
healthy food and water, train your soul to be stronger against the hits from
the other team , he will ask you not to destroy the souls of others including
from the other team as you never know a lot of them like you might join at one
point.
As I’m hitting my 40 years old mark, I decided that I will
do my best to be in god’s team, I’m so weak inside but that loving coach will
always bet on those who feel weak and broken because once strengthened a lot of
them become significant players in the game.
This reflection is very not theological or sophisticated, it’s
a personal perspective I had when I was a child and I felt when it came back
that a new young and cleansed spirit is re appearing inside of me.
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