Let your Light Shine!
Habit. Sometimes, you get used to an environment full of blessings and kindness, you quickly forget the "dirt" from which you came out, and the light of God becomes something ordinary for you. And just then, a temptation enters the heart, the same, old, and very dangerous in the style: "eat from this fruit and you will be stronger." This is the ancient way in which the "evil inclination" (Satan/"old serpent") tempts us. And it's important to be alert. “Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking’s, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” 1 Peter 2:1-3 Peter writes his letter to already believing people and once again raises the same old problem that strikes us now when we GET USED. And we stop moving forward. He says that malice, deceit/gossip, envy, and slander can destroy the Divine life in...