Beware of Ungodly Counsel

Since 2003 I have been on the internet. I must say, I have met some doozies. Some probably consider me one as well. One difference is that I may have strange ways but I stick with you until the end. I guess that I can say that I haven’t met many people with true “stick-to-it-ive-ness”. People come and people go but sometimes I wonder what their intent was before they left.

Have you ever had people mysteriously come into your life and act like you are soooo interesting to them only to find that a year or so later, they left as quickly as they came? The Word says that they left because they were not “of us” to start with. Trust surely is an issue to us today especially when dealing with people online not really knowing what they are like on the other side of the computer screen. So many come to us with agendas while we are thinking that they really love us and want to know and help us. Help really doesn’t come easy. As soon as some learn that you are not flawless, they flee. And most of the time, that is not the real reason why they flee. There are so many people out there looking for a handout. They want to use you as a stepping stool and when they find out that they cannot they bow out gracefully trying to make you think that you were the problem. It hurts, I know. I’ve had it happen for what seems endlessly.

The Word tells us that there is nothing like the correction or chastisement of a friend.

Evidently some cannot be our friends because they never give you a chance to talk it out or to sit down and tell you what it is that they are not liking at the moment. People just go behind your back and gossip and render a decision about you according to what their gossip may bring. “Well I don’t like the way that she/he…..” and “If they say ____ one more time I will scream!”  or “They are not really Christian because……”

Some people sit around exchanging so-called “experiences with you” so fiercely that they become fearful and leave you, not because of anything that you have done but because of their own created gossip. Then you sit around and wonder what your problem is when most of the time it wasn’t you in the first place.

People can try to coerce you into making them Co-This or Co-That. Some will even begin to flash money as though they could “buy you” and when they find out that they cannot, they find a “sweet but gentle” reason to leave. Some even try to set you up for failure so that they can have a clear excuse to leave you. Then you sit around wondering what you did to make that person upset. Sometimes we have to step back and take a good look at ourselves and see how we can better ourselves, and sometimes it wasn’t us at all. Because someone else is fickle and are only opportunists doesn’t mean that you are.

When people appear in your life, especially if you are dealing with those online, (the internet,) give it some time. The bible tells us to try the spirits to see if they are of God. Don’t let them try you without your trying them. Iron sharpeneth iron. Trust is good but trying is better.

1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Rev Esther R. Scott

aka

Rev Essie