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To: Forest Keeper
I'm going to take a wild guess here and go way out on a limb. I am actually going to say that satan did not lead me to want to know my God better

Your enemies lead you to God, FK. Evil sends us to God when it shows its true ugly face. As St. Nikolai (Valdimiriovich) says:

"Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not Enemies have driven me into Thy embrace more than friends have. Friends have bound me to earth, enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world.

Enemies have made me a stranger in worldly realms and an extraneous inhabitant of the world. Just as a hunted animal finds safer shelter than an unhunted animal does, so have I, persecuted by enemies, found the safest sanctuary, having ensconced myself beneath Thy tabernacle, where neither friends nor enemies can slay my soul.

Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them. They, rather than I, have confessed my sins before the world. They have punished me, whenever I have hesitated to punish myself. They have tormented me, whenever I have tried to flee torments. They have scolded me, whenever I have flattered myself They have spat upon me, whenever I have filled myself with arrogance."

2,288 posted on 02/04/2006 10:44:21 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
Your enemies lead you to God, FK. Evil sends us to God when it shows its true ugly face. As St. Nikolai (Valdimiriovich) says:

"Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not Enemies have driven me into Thy embrace more than friends have. Friends have bound me to earth, enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world.

This doesn't make sense to me. I don't think of secularists, pornographers, drug dealers, and liberals as leading me to God. I see them as leading me away. Isn't satan the great tempter? Satan is surely my enemy. Why do we pray for God to not lead us into temptation, if this actually leads us back to God? I can't believe that satan leads me to God.

2,349 posted on 02/07/2006 11:32:10 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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