“He did deliver me from bondage” p. 60, day 2
This seems to be referring to the box of
self-deception, as described by the Savoir in the Sermon on the Mount when he
said to ‘agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with him,
lest he get thee and deliver thee to the officer and the officer delivers you
to prison- where you can pay no money and have no power to get yourself
out.’ This is a pattern of all human
psychological behavior. When we become
angry our vision becomes distorted. We
do not see things as they really are (truth) but through our own warped way of
interpreting them. Our feelings of blame
and hurt are a result of having denied the truth- or lying to ourselves or to
God.
The thing that concerns me about this principle is
that the evil enticings are not acknowledged.
It is our choice to believe at any given moment, but those ‘voices’ DO
come from an outside source. (See “My
Dot People” by Kirk Duncan and 2 N 2:16)
In that moment when we choose to believe a lie (not just speaking a lie)
we are thrust down to hell, having denied the truth. It IS the adversary that whispers these lies
in our ears. We choose to believe either
because of doubt or fear. Hence why
Christ said, ‘Doubt not.’
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