Satan will come to you in a form you least expected.
Satan is BEAUTY to the point of undermining ATTITUDE. Beauty is an
effect that can be altered. Someone used to say that one should not
try to please others; it is enough that one is pleasant. Satan comes
into being when one started to cultivate his outside appearance in
order to please others, and forget to nourish his own attitude. Satan
is usually portrayed as being an ugly beast that is ready to devour
any of its preys with its sharp and dirty teeth. But Satan is more
beautiful than one can ever imagine, it is a beauty that tends us to
forget our very own self. One may look so beautiful in his
appearance, base on what society's criteria of beauty, but if his
attitude hides something awful it will come out in time. When that
comes, no amount of make up or foundation can hide his ugliness. It
is always wiser to look at the beauty within rather than what your
eyes can normally see. Sometimes our very eyes deceive us. When a
person is courting someone he always puts his best foot forward. He
wears clothes that will make him look better. Later when he got
married, his repressed self comes into being. This is the reason for
several marriage break ups. A lot of people hides the Satan in them
instead of nourishing their own natural goodness. There is nothing
wrong in being beautiful but we should not focus on such. It is
better that we feel Beauty by being pleasant rather than be Beautiful
but be filled with pride. Remember, we are all God's creation. We are
all Perfect and Beautiful. We do not need to please other people we
should just be pleasant. One should only nourish his own attitude and
true Beauty will manifest itself.
Satan is PLEASURE to the point of undermining FEELINGS. "Why can
something that feels so good be so wrong." This is a popular
expression heard from teenagers who does premarital sex. I have known
of someone who was abused by his boyfriend. She said that her
boyfriend seems to view her as a sex object. In her own words, she
describes herself as "a juke box that whenever her boyfriend just
insert coin for her to play music". The coin is in the form of a
treat in expensive restaurants or threat that he will leave her. For
females who have already had experienced such with their boyfriends
it is hard to leave them because they already have been emotionally
attached to them. The music is in the form of the satisfaction that
is derived after inserting the coin. Of course, she feels PLEASURE
every time her g-spot is pumped, but then she feels sorrow that her
boyfriend FORGETS that she also has some feelings. Sometimes, she
just wants someone whom she could talk to but all her boyfriend wants
is to fuck her. She found her boyfriend because she never experience
the love of a father, for her father have always been busy as one of
the cabinet secretaries in a previous administration. PLEASURE
becomes more evil when some people tend to forget that they are
already deriving pleasure from their very own kin. I remember someone
having been abused by her own father. She feels both exhilarated and
dirty after her father rubs her breast. At that time she was in
disbelief that her father could do such an act to her because she has
place high regards for her father. She has waited for her father for
fourteen years and envied her classmates that attended family
reunions with their father only to realize that her father is
overruled by Satan.
Satan is SELF-PRESERVATION to the point of DESTROYING others. "Wars
starts in the minds of men, it is also in the mind that peaceful
resolutions can be made." This is a part of one of the speeches made
by Kofi Annan, Uinted Nations, Secretary General. Nations have
declared war over other nations because they wanted to preserve their
territory; they seem to forget that there is but one world that we
all live in and that we are all children of God. Self-preservation is
naturally good. We need to survive, but if our survival will mean the
demise of more of our kinds then it is better for us to cease from
existing. Sometimes there is really no reason for arguments or for
any of the killings, we just feel insecure that the other person will
harm us first that is why we would like to be the first one to
strike. This happens only when we have a NEGATIVE thinking of who we
are that is reflected to us by society. Therefore, if we always feel
threatened it is because we also want to harm others. That there is
this anger or fear that we have kept in years that is now ripe for
revenge. The reason for arguments is that we tend to focus more on
PERSONALITY instead of UNDERSTANDING that we only have the same
VISION and that vision is GOD.
Satan is POWER to the point of undermining the WEAK. "We should not
be afraid of what we can do. We should always use our capacity as a
tool and not something to be afraid of." This was cited by Nelson
Mandela to inspire the African people to believe in their capacity to
make use of their strength in advancing their nation. It is not POWER
rather the GREEDINESS for such that creates conflicts. I believe that
the more POWER we have the greater our responsibility to use such to
benefit other people. It should not be the other way around.
Satan is HAPINESS to the point of undermining those who MOURN. This
is similar to the earlier example of being insensitive to the
feelings of others. Although it is a CHOICE to be Happy, that one can
CHOOSE to be Happy in any circumstances, one should not joke on the
sad feelings felt by other people. When a person is wounded it is but
a natural tendency for the flesh to bleed. When our eyes are covered
with dirt it is but a natural tendency to cry. The emotions that we
experience allows us to feel life. It is said that in pain there is
relief. Satan are those who undermine the feelings of others, those
who are insensitive and those who does not want to UNDERSTAND. These
are people who do not know who they are and their happiness is not a
CHOICE, which they have made, rather, it is a superficial expression
that hides its intention of mocking other people. There are a lot of
this Satan, be careful that you may not end up as one of them.
Satan is LOVE to the point of being OBSESSED. Love is God. But loving
someone or something to the point of wanting to possess it is never
good. We have to be polite when dealing with other people, respect
their PERSONALITY. Love only to the point that you Like the person
and you accept the fact that you are ready to give her up or share
with other people that she maybe appreciated by more people. It is
like a flower that one should never pluck from the ground. A flower
in the hand will wither. When it is left alone, more travelers can
still appreciate its BEAUTY. It is said, that if you really love
someone, you have to learn to let her go. This may prove to be
disheartening but that is the only way to really show her how much
you appreciate her.
Beauty, Pleasure, Self-preservation, Power, Happiness and Love should
come from WITHIN. If we always search for these from the outside,
then we are near to loosing ourselves and giving Satan the
opportunity to take control of our life. Satan can be defeated by
acknowledging that we are already PERFECT. That we need not to eat
the apple of Wisdom in order to know more. That we need not NEED
because we already HAVE. We just have to recognize that God dwells
within us. For our body is the temple of God. Immanuel, God is within.