By Olubunmi Adebayo
*There is something I want to draw your attention to : the need for everyone of us (male and female) to be careful of SILENT DANGERS around us..*
*One example of silent danger around you is :*
*A friend with deep-seated envy in his or her heart against you or anything that is connected to you.*
*Such a fellow will end up expressing his envy in hatred and animosity against you. And this is normally executed in the silence of people’s hearts.*
*If you seem not to believe this, this is how the Word of God explains it :*
*Jeremiah 17: [9] “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”*
*To establish and reinforce the idea that the man you may call your “friend” may be nursing grudges against you is the fact that in :*
*Matthew 15: [18] “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man”.*
*[19] “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:”*
*[20] “These are the things which defile a man…..*”
*It is within the precinct of the heart that all manners of unbelievable evil and wickedness are orchestrated by man against his fellow men.*
*Except the Lord Himself helps you against the wickedness in the hearts of such fellows (all because of envy), a man is gone.*
*Don’t forget that such people are your friends. If they are not your friends, you can keep them at a distance.**This is why you must live righteously and in holiness before God, the father of Light, with Whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning. It is by His mercy alone that a man or woman is preserved against the wickedness in the hearts of “friends” who are actually enemies.*
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©️ Olubunmi S Adebayo.
