Which voice are you hearing?

[thephnxman]

'And Adam heard the Voice of the Lord God walking
in the morning in the cool of the air."

I once heard an older woman tell a younger one, “Don’t listen to
anyone, but do what you want.” Can you see the paradox? If the
younger woman did indeed follow the older woman’s advise, she
would be listening to the older woman…and contradicting her as
well! It is impossible not to “...listen to someone else”. The Lord
said, “No man can serve two masters.” We will either obey one and
not the other; or love one, and hate the other. This is true for all
Christians and non-Christians alike; believers and atheists; saints
and sinners. We are ALL serving one master. Or, at the very least,
one master at a time! When we do that (try to serve two masters,
we are falling into the same trap as Adam and Eve: we are eating
“…of the tree of knowledge of good AND evil.”

Each time I say that I believe in God but follow the lusts of my mind,
I am serving my flesh, and the serpent becomes my master. Listen
up: the Lord God told the serpent, “Because you have done this,
you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;
upon your belly shall thou go, and dust shall you eat all the days of
your life…”. To understand this thought a little better, let’s follow
a guideline I previously wrote on FB: “There are two realms: they are
the natural and the spiritual realms.” The serpent is fulfilling God’s
curse in the world (the realm we can see): it is crawling on its belly
and eating (tasting food with its tongue through the particles in the
air) of the dust of the ground. Within the spiritual realm, the serpent
WILL EAT (conquers) the dust in which man was formed (not created):
“And the Lord God FORMED man of the dust of the ground…”. The
serpent uses the mind to seduce and, consequently, conquer man!
And what, pray tell, are the signs that tell us when man is being
conquered by the serpent? When man's body (flesh) OBEYS the lust
that is in the world!

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring
lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour (conquer) : whom
resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions (all the
seductions) are accomplished in your brothers (other humans) that are
in the world.

[YounginHope]

Yes sir. Amen.

I had a dream a couple weeks ago and this put me in mind of it. I was at a car show somewhere in the Middle East. I don't know why as I have no desire for high end sports cars but that is what was there. There was a large stage where everyone got to see the cars for sale and at the edge of the stage was a roped off area. In this area was a lion walking back and forth just taking it all in. He could get out of course but he seemed content. Until I got a little closer to him. Then he started following me everywhere I went. No one seemed afraid of him as he was harmless to them. But I had a healthy fear like you would have for a pit bull that the owner tells you hasn't bitten anyone in days. I just didn't want him around and kept trying to avoid him. He kept coming so I climbed up on an old stone well house. Then there he was. No matter where I went he was coming. I remember thinking that he was just waiting on me to mess up and he was going to devour me.

[KeptByTheWord]

Very good thoughts P-man!