The struggle
Ephesians 6:12 – because we have a struggle, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places.
The most evident part of this struggle is in front of us every day, with every wicked influence, pressure, temptation or trial we face in Satan’s world.
There is another danger though, represented by another kind of warfare. In the wars of this world attacks are both physical and cyber; the same it’s true for the spiritual war. We have to face attacks that leverage our imperfect nature, and that seem coming from the inside of us. They are dangerous because it’s often hard to detect them.
Of course among these there would be impure thoughts or negative thoughts about our brothers and sister or even the organisation. As if these kind of thoughts weren’t treacherous enough, there is still another variety of mental attacks we want to defend ourselves from.
Consience
1 John 3:20 – regarding whatever our hearts may condemn us in, because God is greater than our hearts and knows all things
Consience is a precious gift. If we keep it trained, it will allow to stick to Jehovah’s will. We must not take it for granted though, and remember that we are still imperfect. So our conscience is too: often the heart tries to justify its own wrong desires, but sometimes it can condemn ourselves.
We may found ourselves, even on daily basis, questioning our own motives, trying to “unmask” the wrongdoer in us, because we know how much imperfect we are, how easily misled and temptable, how many are how weaknesses. We may repeatedly point at the worst in us as the most important part of us, building and ever increasing sense of guilt and self-disrespect. We end up deprived of energy and of joy in serving Jehovah.
Is this the true work of a christian consience? Doesn’t this hypercritical spirit remind us of someone?
Accuser
Job 1:9 – At that Satan answered Jehovah: “Is it for nothing that Job has feared God?
Revelation 12:9-10 – So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God!
2 Corinthians 11:14 – And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps disguising himself as an angel of light.
Yes, we may found ourselves doing the work of Satan, recreating his attitude inside of ourselves! This is an appalling prospect indeed! Yet it’s what we imperfect humans could tend to do, even without realising it. We said at the start we want and must fight Satan and his propaganda and his spirit, so it’s just natural we should fight this tendency as well.
Victory
2 Corintians 10:3-5 – For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage warfare according to what we are in the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful by God for overturning strongly entrenched things. For we are overturning reasonings and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are bringing every thought into captivity to make it obedient to the Christ
Psalms 94:19 – When anxieties (or: disquieting thoughts) overwhelmed me, You comforted and soothed me.
To win this mental fight, we must internalize Jehovah’s way of thinking and feeling, meditating on his word, finding verses and principles that guide our mind in the right direction. Like with computers, we could want to install an antivirus program in our mind, trying to actively intercept harmful or negative thoughts during the day. We may have to examine every single thought we make to see if it matches Jehovah’s principles and requirements. This requires a constant effort: I’m not talking about the thoughts we know are wrong, but about the non-suspicious looking ones.
But sure it’s worth it: with exercise, it will become less hard. We will feel much more joy and we will be able to serve Jehovah “with all our minds”.

Anche la struttura del diamante è un tetraedro. Ovviamente sappiamo collegare tutti l’amore ai diamanti. Ma ora pare che condividano anche la stessa struttura geometrica. Se l’amore è propriamente costruito, condivideranno anche la stessa durezza, e saranno entrambi per sempre.



