Two are Watching Whatever we do
“Nothing could happen without the knowledge of Jesus Christ. He is omniscient – John 16:30 (NIV)”
I quote here only a few acts as samples of sins which are despised by the Lord and will invite His wrath and capital punishments during the final judgement. Sexual impurity and immorality,
S. THAYAPPAN 103 adultery, shameful lusts, indecent acts, perversions, homosexuals, male prostitution, obscenity, wickedness, evil, greed, depravity, envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice, gossips, slanders, insolence, arrogance, boastfulness, disobedience to parents, contempt, idolatry and worshiping man, birds, animals and reptiles as gods, passing judgement on others, stealing, giving false testimony, devouring widows’ houses, making a show of lengthy prayers, self seeking, rejecting the truth, foolish talk, coarse joking, not doing the good one ought to do to others, bragging, drunkards, swindling, loving worldly things in preference to God, speaking against your brother or judging him. Like these, there are so many things which are considered as evil, sin and disliked and despised by the Lord. Each of us will have to give an account of ourselves to God (Rom 14:12). Now you tell me, are we sinners or not? Knowingly or unknowingly, sometimes after suppressing and burying our own conscious, we do commit every day many of the above sins. Even I had felt irritated and annoyed when some preachers call upon the public “O Sinners, come to Lord Jesus Christ. He calls you for salvation”. Many a times I had thought in the past that no one on this earth had seen or was aware of the wrong thing I had done and had felt satisfied and contended. But there is nothing in us or in this world that is not known to the Lord. He is fully aware of everything, every thought, even the inner most feelings in our heart. We may be able to cheat others, even ourselves, but not God. He knows the things even before we think of them.
In fact two are constantly watching us and all our deeds. One is God, the other one is devil. When we do good things, the Lord feels happy. But when we do a sin, the devil is happy and the Lord is unhappy. Satan is the inducer and cause for doing all the above evil things mentioned and innumerable other sins that are not mentioned here. He is waiting readily near us like our shadows to jump on us, induce and entice us to do all these evil and sinful acts, drag, bind us in his grip and under his bondage permanently without any escape, widen the gap in our divine relationship with
the God and finally push us into the hell and burning fire saying that the death is the reward for all our sins. Satan is the cause for all our present problems, sickness, loss of peace, unhappiness, worries and sufferings. Apostle Peter warns us in I Peter 5:8 that he is roaming like a roaring lion looking eagerly for someone to devour and the thief (Satan) comes only to steal and kill and destroy (John 10:10) Yes, the Satan is roaming around to destroy our peace, health, wealth, family and kill and steal all our happiness. He is the lord of this earth and age (2 Cor 4:4). He has blinded all our faith, convinced and cheated us that he is the real god in different forms and names in this world. The Bible warns us in Mathew 24:24 that false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect! He is very cunning, wicked, clever and powerful also. But he is a cheat and thief. He was a murderer from the beginning. He is a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44). He knows about the Word of God also. In fact he knows more than any of us. He can trick us with the same Word of God. He has cleverly tricked, cheated and divided our Christian brothers also into so many denominations. He has also succeeded in further dividing the believers with wrong doctrines like Body of Christ, “Jehovah witness”, “Only Jesus” and so many others with the same Word of God. See how cunning he is. We are not unaware of his schemes (2 Cor 2:11).
Some people tell me that I went to that temple or to that shrine and a miracle or wonder happened in my life, I was healed of my sickness, got a job, found suitable match for my son etc. Many such wonders may have happened in our lives also after worshiping the devil in the temples. I too had witnessed such miracles in my life, professional career and family life after going to those temples prior to coming to Christ. All these things are the cunningness and tricks of the Satan done just to keep us under his thumb, grip and under false illusion that he is the real god and capable of doing the miracles. The Word of God warns us in 2 Cor 11:14 that no wonder
S. THAYAPPAN 105 for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. Also the Scripture tells us clearly in Rev 16:14 that they are spirits of demons performing signs. Further 2 Cor 4:4 says that the Satan has blinded the eyes of the atheist. But the devil knows very well that there is a God (Sam 2:29). It is like feeding and fattening the goat for the slaughter house and like a Captor giving protection and food to the captives before killing them whom he had abducted for his selfish motives. Let us not be carried away and be fooled by these tricks of the Satan.