MALICE IS NOT OF GOD
Dear friend, are you in the
habit of getting angry when someone offends you or when you offend someone you
keep malice and expect the person to come beg you?
There are cases of even
married couples who quarrel and keep malice for up to three months!
The question to ask is, if
the Lord Jesus Christ were to come for His Church today in Rapture, will He
take such people along with Him? The answer is absolute no!
This is because malice is
not of God but of the devil or satan. Anyone who has been joined to Christ
Jesus in Salvation has become a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17) and all
unrighteousness should not be found in such person.
What does one gain in keeping
malice with another person? Each time you see the person, there is bitterness
and pain in your hearts and you pass each other without saying a word.
Now if you get to heaven and
see the person, no doubt such malice would still occur. Unfortunately, the Lord
Jesus cannot allow such persons to enter His Kingdom so it is simply a waste of
time engaging in such behaviour!
Dear friend, as Christians,
we must learn to examine our conscience alongside what God expects of us in His
Word, the Holy Bible and if we are found wanting, we MUST repent, ask for
forgiveness and return quickly to the Lord.
We must never engage in
behaviour that offends God. There are instances where a parent would have a
misunderstanding with a neighbour and then keep malice with the neighbour and
teach their children to do the same thing by telling them not to greet the
neighbour.
As God has decreed in His
Word, no human being can live on earth more than a hundred and twenty years
(Genesis 6:3). When we depart this world, we face eternity, a world without
end, and the way we have lived here on earth determines whether we will spend
eternity in heaven or hell.
Only those who accept Jesus
Christ as their Lord and Saviour and lived in obedience to His commands as
contained in the Bible will get to live forever in heaven while those who
rejected Jesus Christ and disobeyed His commands will spend eternity in hell in
torment by satan and his demons.
Dear friend, why live a few
years on earth in malice and then spend eternity in hell? Can't we remove pride
and live in peace as children of God our Father? Can't we forgive ourselves and
let go of hatred and malice?
Can't we reject satan and
obey God? God has the final say in everything and if God has said those who
disobey His commands will not see His Kingdom, no one can stop that from
happening.
Please, I beg you, dear
friend, don't give in to satan's deceit and then suffer endlessly for it,
something no amount of regret in hell
will ever change as the torment there is for ever and ever.
Turn to Jesus Christ today,
accept Him, obey His commands and continue your journey to eternity where He
will receive you and reward you with eternal life that only He can guarantee.
This is a fact!
May the good Lord bless you
as you heed His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus' Mighty
Name, Amen.
Gabriel Ama.
Let us look at some
Scripture passages on malice:
1 Peter 2:1-2 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all
deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,like newborn babies, long for the
pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and
clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Colossians 3:8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger,
wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not be children in your
thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.