Christian Diaries: Falling into Temptation and Finding Victory Through God(1)

Zhang Lei

Thursday, February 1, Sunny

This morning right after breakfast, even before I had finished my devotionals, my little sister came to my house and told me excitedly: “It’s really easy and fast to start an online business these days. I have a friend who’s been doing really well in her micro-business. Why don’t you give it a try?” She saw that I wasn’t saying a word, so then said: “Hey, give it a shot! There aren’t many barriers to entry and you don’t need to invest much money. Besides, your time would be really free. No matter where you are, you can share pictures of products on your Moments; the time is not limited like going to work.” After hearing her say this I thought: “I don’t have the time to be a micro-entrepreneur. I was just dismissed from my duty, so I really need to read God’s words and reflect on myself, then I need to perform my duty again.” Thinking of that, I flatly refused.

Sunday, February 4, Sunny

My sister came over again first thing in the morning to talk about the micro-entrepreneur thing. “In today’s society everyone looks down on you if you don’t have money! Besides, being a micro-entrepreneur won’t interfere with your faith and earning a little more money is always a good thing …” What she said stirred me a bit and I thought: “Since it wouldn’t interfere with my faith and I could earn some money, it seems it could work out well for me, but …” I was still hesitant and said to my sister: “Let me give it some thought.”

Thursday, February 8, Very Cloudy

After breakfast I tidied up the kitchen and just when I had sat down and was picking up the book of God’s words, my cousin called me and said: “Are you going to be a micro-entrepreneur? There’s a company I want to tell you about that has thousands of products. They’re good quality and inexpensive. As long as you become a member, when there are people buying the products, just go to the physical store to pick them up and you’ll earn money when they change hands. Your time can be really flexible, too—you can sell whenever you want to. When you don’t you can just do your own thing. You should give it some thought.” After she said that I thought to myself: “If that’s the case it’s really not bad. As an agent there’s usually not much variety in the products and you have to pay a larger agent fee for a greater variety, but that’s not necessary as a micro-entrepreneur, so this is a business opportunity that can’t be passed up. I don’t have a duty to perform now anyway, and I can manage my time myself as a micro-entrepreneur, so it won’t interfere with my devotionals or self-reflection!”

After my husband got off work that evening, I discussed the idea with him and he was really supportive. Considering that it wouldn’t have any impact on my faith and I could earn some money, it seemed like the best of both worlds! I decided to give it a try.

Tuesday, February 20, Sunny

Since joining the micro-enterprise field I’ve realized that it isn’t nearly as simple as my sister and cousin said it was. There’s a lot of information to take in and lectures to watch or listen to. Over this period of time I’ve just been hurriedly reading a few passages of God’s words during my daily devotionals and then clutching my phone, listening to classes and studying in the WeChat group to see how the group leader introduced the product, communicated with people, and interacted with people in friends group. Today, when I turned on my phone to listen to a class, I felt a little uneasy, thinking: “I’m listening to classes every day so I can’t sit still to read God’s words. After a while won’t my heart stray?” But I couldn’t help myself and really wanted to listen, and just then I heard people in the group say: “The micro-entrepreneur Xiaobai did this for just one or two years and then bought a big house and a nice car. If someone else can do it, why can’t I? In today’s society money is a symbol of status!” “Yeah! Before I was a micro-entrepreneur no one thought much of me. But now I have money and people are practically banging down my door to come wheedle me. It’s just like that saying, ‘The rich have relatives far and wide but the poor have no one anywhere.’ Who will think anything of us unless we have money?” After hearing this I couldn’t help but nod my head and think: “It’s so true that today’s society is like that! People will only think something of you, look up to you if you have money. Anyone without money is just trampled on by others, so I need to work harder to make some money. Then maybe I’ll also have the chance to buy a big house, drive a BMW, and travel all over the place … Even if I don’t get to that point, at the least I’ll be able to show off in front of my snobby friends and relatives.” Thinking of that gave me even more motivation to pursue it.

Saturday, March 2, Very Cloudy

These last few mornings, the moment I open my eyes, I rush to look at my phone to see if there have been any inquiries on my products. I lie in bed busily sending out ads and editing descriptions, racking my brains to reach out to people in my circle of friends so that they’ll have interest in my products. I even look at my phone while I’m eating, and when I’m on the bus or walking I never forget to show my friends the scenery from the road, only thinking of attracting more people. I can’t think of anything but how to find customers and sell products. Even if I can get to sleep, even in my dreams I’m thinking of sales and profits. Every evening I listen to lectures over and over so I can gain some marketing skills. I don’t get to sleep until 1 or 2 a.m. I stay up too late and don’t have the energy to make breakfast for my son, so he has to go buy it. I feel a bit distressed but whenever I think of the money I’ll earn, which will mostly go to my son anyway, I think that suffering a bit right now will be worth it. These last couple of days my eyelids have been dry, itchy, and peeling because I’m always staying up late, plus there’s the radiation from my cellphone. Quite a few times I’ve been feeling so uncomfortable that I’ve wanted to just throw my cellphone and ignore any messages, but then I’m afraid that someone will inquire about my products, that I won’t be able to respond in time and I’ll miss the opportunity to make a sale. So I’m still always attached to my phone and working to earn money and recognition!

Friday, March 16, Cloudy

Recently I’ve noticed that a lot of my cohorts are doing good business. I found out that they got falsified reviews praising their products to boost their sales. No wonder my sales are always lagging so far behind theirs—it turns out that’s why. So that I can earn some money, I’ve also started to learn how to create false images on my phone and misrepresent my sales so that I can fool customers, or even exaggerate the product’s effectiveness. I can say that the product has whatever effects the customer needs. I’ve been busy doing all of this to sell products online and hardly have any time to read God’s words. Even when I do have a bit of time, I just aimlessly flip through it and don’t know what to read. Sometimes I fall asleep when I’m reading God’s words and I forget it totally afterward. Even my prayers have been really dull and dry. I don’t know what to say to God and I don’t really want to read His words or listen to sermons anymore. I just want to sell things. My other cousin came the other day to bring me the copies of God’s words and recordings of sermons, but I avoided her saying I wasn’t at home. I feel like I’m growing farther and farther away from God and I know this kind of deceptiveness isn’t in line with His will, but I don’t have the strength to forsake the flesh and overcome Satan’s temptations.

Saturday, March 24, Cloudy turning Sunny

This morning I found out that my father-in-law secretly handed over our incredibly profitable catering business to someone else when my husband wasn’t around. It’s already happened and saying something won’t be any use, but I’m so angry. I’ve worked so hard, but I haven’t earned as much as I lost—I can’t reconcile with it. I have to work harder as a micro-entrepreneur to regain what I’ve lost now. This evening when I picked up my phone to look at my messages my husband said to me, irritated: “Stop messing with your phone. If you’re on your phone too late you won’t be able to get up in the morning, plus it’s so cold outside and our son has to eat on the way to school. You’re not getting good rest at night, either.” This environment came upon me but not only did I not retreat to the spirit to seek God’s will, but I argued with my husband, saying: “I’m looking at my phone to earn money as a micro-entrepreneur. It’s not like I’m playing games or watching movies …”

Monday, March 26, Rainy

Today after my husband came back after eating at a restaurant, with his drunkenness he yelled at me: “Stop looking at your phone! If you keep looking at it, I’ll throw it away! You’re always clinging to your phone and you won’t even make food anymore. I’ve told you so many times but you still won’t stop …” Seeing him that way I thought, “You’re just finding fault with absolutely no basis, aren’t you?” I got out of bed and said in a huff: “What’s wrong with me looking at my phone? I’m not playing games or chatting with other people. You agreed to me being a micro-entrepreneur but now you’re talking about throwing my phone out!” He became even angrier after I said that and was determined to grab my phone from me. When he saw I wouldn’t let him have it he grabbed me with both hands and shook me from side to side and positioned himself like he was about to hit me. When our son saw that we were about to fight he pulled my husband away. That was how that ended. My husband’s actions absolutely stunned me and I can’t understand it at all. At the time he was totally in agreement with me being a micro-entrepreneur, so why is he being so unreasonable now? I’m so angry that my stomach hurts and I feel like he doesn’t understand me at all. I’ve tried to think of absolutely everything to sell products, and aren’t I wanting to earn a little more money just so that our family can live a little better? Plus it’s not like I never make food, it’s just that I don’t always get to it in time. Does that really merit such an explosion? The more I think about it, the more I feel like I’ve been wronged, gasping for breath out of anger. I don’t even want to stay in the room. I walked out to the balcony and looked at the stars, thinking of everything that just happened and I felt so incredibly sad. It was only then that I came before God to seek and pray: Why is this happening to me?

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Daily Words of God | "God's Work, God's Disposition, and God Himself II" | Excerpt 48

Job Defeats Satan and Becomes a True Man in the Eyes of God

 

       When Job first underwent his trials, he was stripped of all his property and all of his children, but he did not fall down or say anything that was a sin against God as a result. He had overcome the temptations of Satan, and he had overcome his material assets and offspring, and the trial of losing all his worldly possessions, which is to say he was able to obey God’s taking away from him and offer thanks and praise to God because of it. Such was Job’s conduct during Satan’s first temptation, and such was also Job’s testimony during the first trial of God. In the second trial, Satan stretched forth its hand to afflict Job, and although Job experienced pain greater than he had ever felt before, still his testimony was enough to leave people astounded. He used his fortitude, conviction, and obedience to God, as well as his fear of God, to once more defeat Satan, and his conduct and his testimony were once more approved of and favored by God. During this temptation, Job used his actual conduct to proclaim to Satan that the pain of the flesh could not alter his faith and obedience to God or take away his devotion to God and fear of God; he would not renounce God or give up his own perfection and uprightness because he faced death. Job’s determination made a coward of Satan, his faith left Satan timorous and trembling, the force of his life-and-death battle with Satan bred in Satan a deep hatred and resentment, his perfection and uprightness left Satan with nothing more it could do to him, such that Satan abandoned its attacks on him and gave up its accusations against Job before Jehovah God. This meant that Job had overcome the world, he had overcome the flesh, he had overcome Satan, and he had overcome death; he was completely and utterly a man who belonged to God. During these two trials, Job stood firm in his testimony, and actually lived out his perfection and uprightness, and broadened the scope of his living principles of fearing God and shunning evil. Having undergone these two trials, there was born in Job a richer experience, and this experience made him more mature and seasoned, it made him stronger, and of greater conviction, and it made him more confident of the rightness and worthiness of the integrity to which he held firm. Jehovah God’s trials of Job gave him a deep understanding and sense of God’s concern for man, and allowed him to sense the preciousness of God’s love, from which point consideration toward and love for God were added in to his fear of God. The trials of Jehovah God not only didn’t alienate Job from Him, but brought his heart closer to God. When the fleshly pain endured by Job reached its peak, the concern that he felt from Jehovah God gave him no choice but to curse the day of his birth. Such conduct was not long-planned, but a natural revelation of the consideration for and love of God from within his heart, it was a natural revelation that came from his consideration for and love of God. Which is to say, because he loathed himself, and he was unwilling to, and could not stand to torment God, thus his consideration and love reached the point of selflessness. At this time, Job elevated his long-standing adoration and yearning for God and devotion to God to the level of consideration and loving. At the same time, he also elevated his faith and obedience to God and fear of God to the level of consideration and loving. He did not allow himself to do anything that would cause harm to God, he did not permit himself any conduct that would hurt God, and did not allow himself to bring any sorrow, grief, or even unhappiness upon God for his own reasons. In God’s eyes, although Job was still the Job of before, Job’s faith, obedience, and fear of God had brought God complete satisfaction and enjoyment. At this time, Job had attained the perfection that God had expected him to attain, he had become someone truly worthy of being called “perfect and upright” in God’s eyes. His righteous deeds allowed him to overcome Satan and to stand fast in his testimony to God. So, too, did his righteous deeds make him perfect, and allow the value of his life to be elevated, and transcend more than ever, and make him the first person to no longer be attacked and tempted by Satan. Because Job was righteous, he was accused and tempted by Satan; because Job was righteous, he was handed over to Satan; and because Job was righteous, he overcame and defeated Satan, and stood firm in his testimony. Henceforth Job became the first man who would never again be handed over to Satan, he truly came before the throne of God, and lived in the light, under the blessings of God without the spying or ruination of Satan…. He had become a true man in the eyes of God, he had been set free …

 

Excerpted from The Word Appears in the Flesh

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Daily Words of God | "God's Work, God's Disposition, and God Himself I" | Excerpt 25

God Makes Coats of Skins for Adam and Eve

 

(Gen 3:20–21) And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. To Adam also and to his wife did Jehovah God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

 

In this image of “To Adam also and to his wife did Jehovah God make coats of skins, and clothed them,” what kind of role does God play when He is with Adam and Eve? Under what kind of role does God appear in a world with only two human beings? As the role of God? Brothers and sisters from Hong Kong, please answer. (As the role of a parent.) Brothers and sisters from South Korea, what kind of role do you think God appears as? (Head of the family.) Brothers and sisters from Taiwan, what do you think? (The role of someone in Adam and Eve’s family, the role of a family member.) Some of you think God appears as a family member of Adam and Eve, while some say God appears as the head of the family and others say as a parent. All of these are very appropriate. But what is it that I’m getting at? God created these two people and treated them as His companions. As their only family, God looked after their living and also took care of their basic necessities. Here, God appears as a parent of Adam and Eve. While God does this, man does not see how lofty God is; he does not see God’s paramount supremacy, His mysteriousness, and especially not His wrath or majesty. All he sees is God’s humbleness, His affection, His concern for man and His responsibility and care toward him. The attitude and way in which God treated Adam and Eve is akin to how human parents show concern for their own children. It’s also like how human parents love, look after, and care for their own sons and daughters—real, visible, and tangible. Instead of putting Himself in a high and mighty position, God personally used skins to make clothing for man. It doesn’t matter whether this fur coat was used to cover their modesty or to shield them from the cold. In short, this clothing used to cover man’s body was personally made by God with His own hands. Rather than creating it simply through the thought or miraculous methods as people imagine, God had legitimately done something man thinks God could not and should not do. This may be a simple thing some might not even think as worthy of mentioning, but it also allows all those who follow God but were previously full of vague ideas about Him to gain an insight into His genuineness and loveliness, and to see His faithful and humble nature. It makes insufferably arrogant people who think they are high and mighty bow their conceited heads in shame in the face of God’s genuineness and humbleness. Here, God’s genuineness and humbleness further enables people to see how lovable He is. By contrast, the immense God, lovable God, and omnipotent God in people’s hearts is so small, unappealing, and unable to withstand even a single blow. When you see this verse and hear this story, do you look down upon God because He did such a thing? Some people might, but for others it will be the complete opposite. They will think God is genuine and lovable, and it is precisely God’s genuineness and loveliness that moves them. The more they see the real side of God, the more they can appreciate the true existence of God’s love, the importance of God in their hearts, and how He stands beside them at every moment.

 

At this point, we should link our discussion to the present. If God could do these various little things for the humans He created at the very beginning, even some things that people would never dare think of or expect, then could God do such things for the people of today? Some people say, “Yes!” Why is that? Because God’s essence is not fake, His loveliness is not fake. Because God’s essence truly exists and is not something added on by others, and certainly not something that modifies with changes in time, place, and eras. God’s genuineness and loveliness can truly be brought out through doing something people think is unremarkable and insignificant, something so small that people don’t even think He would ever do. God is not pretentious. There is no exaggeration, disguise, pride, or arrogance in His disposition and essence. He never boasts, but instead loves, shows concern for, looks after, and leads the human beings He created with a faithfulness and sincerity. No matter how much of it people can appreciate, feel, or see, God is absolutely doing these things. Would knowing that God has such an essence affect people’s love for Him? Would it influence their fear of God? I hope when you understand the real side of God you will grow even closer to Him and be able to even more truly appreciate His love and care for mankind, while at the same time also give your heart to God and no longer have any suspicions or doubts toward Him. God is quietly doing everything He is for man, doing it all silently through His sincerity, faithfulness, and love. But He never has any apprehension or regret for all that He does, nor does He ever need anyone to repay Him in any way or have intentions of ever obtaining anything from mankind. The only purpose of everything He has ever done is so He can receive mankind’s true faith and love.

 

Excerpted from The Word Appears in the Flesh

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Are You a True Believer in God?

       You may have walked the path of faith in God for more than one or two years, and perhaps you have endured much hardship in your life during these years; or perhaps you have not endured much hardship, and have instead received much grace. It may also be that you have experienced neither hardship nor grace, but lived a rather unremarkable life. Regardless, you are still a follower of God, so let us fellowship on the subject of following God. However, I must remind all who read these words that the word of God is directed toward those who acknowledge and follow Him, not toward all people whether they acknowledge Him or not. If you believe that God speaks to the masses, to all people in the world, then God’s word will have no effect upon you. Thus, you should remember all of these words in your heart, and not always exclude yourself from them. In any case, let us speak of what is happening in our house.

       You should all now understand the true meaning of faith in God. The meaning of faith in God of which I previously spoke related to your positive entry. Today is different: Today, I would like to analyze the substance of your faith in God. Of course, this is guiding you from a negative aspect; if I did not, then you would never know your true face, and would forever boast of your piety and faithfulness. It is fair to say that if I did not expose the ugliness in the depths of your hearts, then each of you would place a crown upon your head and keep all the glory for yourselves. Your arrogant and conceited natures drive you to betray your own consciences, to rebel against and resist Christ, and to reveal your ugliness, thereby bringing to light your intentions, notions, extravagant desires, and eyes full of greed. And yet you continue to prattle on about your lifelong passion for the work of Christ, and repeat again and again the truths long ago spoken by Christ. This is your “faith”—your “faith without impurity.” I have held man to a strict standard throughout. If your loyalty comes with intentions and conditions, then I would rather be without your so-called loyalty, for I abhor those who deceive Me through their intentions and extort Me with conditions. I wish only for man to be absolutely loyal to Me, and to do all things for the sake of—and in order to prove—one word: faith. I despise your use of blandishments to try to make Me rejoice, for I have always treated you with sincerity, and so wish for you to also act with true faith toward Me. When it comes to faith, many may think that they follow God because they have faith, and would not endure such suffering otherwise. So I ask you this: If you believe in God’s existence, why do you not revere Him? If you believe in God’s existence, why is there not the slightest fear of Him in your heart? You accept that Christ is the incarnation of God, so why do you hold Him in contempt? Why do you act irreverently toward Him? Why do you openly judge Him? Why do you always spy upon His movements? Why do you not submit to His arrangements? Why do you not act in accordance with His word? Why do you try to extort and rob Him of His offerings? Why do you speak from the place of Christ? Why do you judge whether His work and His word are correct? Why do you dare blaspheme Him behind His back? Are these and others what constitute your faith?

       In your words and behavior are revealed elements of your unbelief in Christ. Unbelief pervades the motives and objectives of all you do. Even the character of your gaze contains the unbelief in Christ. It can be said that minute by minute, each of you harbors the elements of unbelief. This means that, at every moment, you are in danger of betraying Christ, for the blood that runs through your body is infused with unbelief in the incarnate God. Therefore, I say that the footprints you leave on the path of faith in God are not real; as you walk the path of faith in God, you do not plant your feet firmly upon the ground—you are merely going through the motions. You never fully believe the word of Christ and are incapable of immediately putting it into practice. This is the reason you do not have faith in Christ. Always having notions about Him is another reason you do not have faith in Him. Forever being skeptical about the work of Christ, letting the word of Christ fall on deaf ears, having an opinion on whatever work is done by Christ and not being able to correctly understand this work, struggling to put aside your notions no matter what explanation you receive, and so on—these are all the elements of unbelief mingled within your hearts. Though you follow the work of Christ and never fall behind, there is too much rebellion mixed in your hearts. This rebellion is an impurity in your belief in God. Perhaps you do not think this is the case, but if you are incapable of recognizing your intentions from within this, then you are bound to be among those who perish, for God perfects only those who truly believe in Him, not those who are skeptical of Him, and least of all those who reluctantly follow Him despite never having believed that He is God.

       Some people do not rejoice in the truth, much less judgment. Instead, they rejoice in power and riches; such people are called power seekers. They search only for those denominations in the world with influence, and they search only for pastors and teachers that come from seminaries. Though they have accepted the way of truth, they are only half-believing; they are incapable of giving all of their hearts and minds, their mouths speak of expending themselves for God, but their eyes are focused on the great pastors and teachers, and they do not spare Christ a second glance. Their hearts are fixated upon fame, fortune, and glory. They think it out of the question that such a meager person could be capable of conquering so many, that one so unremarkable could perfect man. They think it out of the question that these nobodies among the dust and dunghills are the people chosen by God. They believe that if such people were the objects of God’s salvation, then heaven and earth would be turned upside down, and all people would laugh themselves silly. They believe that if God chose such nobodies to be perfected, then those great men would become God Himself. Their perspectives are tainted with unbelief; more than not believing, they are simply preposterous beasts. For they value only status, prestige, and power, and they esteem only large groups and denominations. They have not the slightest regard for those led by Christ; they are simply traitors who have turned their backs on Christ, on truth, and on life.

       What you admire is not the humility of Christ, but those false shepherds of prominent standing. You do not adore the loveliness or wisdom of Christ, but those libertines who wallow in the filth of the world. You laugh at the pain of Christ who has no place to lay His head, but you admire those corpses that hunt for offerings and live in debauchery. You are not willing to suffer alongside Christ, but you gladly throw yourself into the arms of those reckless antichrists, though they only supply you with flesh, words, and control. Even now, your heart still turns toward them, toward their reputation, toward their status, toward their influence. And yet you continue to hold an attitude whereby you find the work of Christ hard to swallow and you are unwilling to accept it. This is why I say that you lack the faith to acknowledge Christ. The reason you have followed Him to this day is only because you had no other option. A series of lofty images are forever towering in your heart; you cannot forget their every word and deed, nor their influential words and hands. They are, in your heart, forever supreme and forever heroes. But this is not so for the Christ of today. He is forever insignificant in your heart, and forever undeserving of reverence. For He is far too ordinary, has far too little influence, and is far from lofty.

       In any case, I say that all those who do not value the truth are nonbelievers and traitors to the truth. Such men shall never receive the approval of Christ. Have you now identified how much unbelief is within you, and how much betrayal of Christ you have? I exhort you thus: Since you have chosen the way of truth, then you should devote yourself wholeheartedly; do not be ambivalent or half-hearted. You should understand that God does not belong to the world nor any one person, but to all those who truly believe in Him, all those who worship Him, and all those who are devoted and faithful to Him.

       Today, much unbelief remains within you. Look hard within yourselves, and you will surely find your answer. When you find the real answer, then you will admit that you are not a believer in God, but rather one who deceives, blasphemes, and betrays Him, and one who is disloyal to Him. Then you will realize that Christ is no man, but God. When that day comes, you will revere, fear, and truly love Christ. Presently, only thirty percent of your heart is filled with faith, while the other seventy percent is filled with doubt. Everything Christ does and says is liable to give you notions and opinions about Him, notions and opinions that stem from your complete unbelief in Him. You admire and fear only the unseen God in heaven, and have no regard for the living Christ on earth. Is this not also your unbelief? You yearn only for the God who did work in the past, but do not face up to the Christ of today. All this is the “faith,” forever mixed in your hearts, the faith that does not believe in the Christ of today. I am in no way underestimating you, for there is too much unbelief within you, too much of you that is impure and must be dissected. These impurities are a sign that you have no faith at all; they are a mark of your renouncement of Christ, and they brand you as a betrayer of Christ. They are a veil covering your knowledge of Christ, a barrier to your being gained by Christ, an obstacle to your compatibility with Christ, and proof that Christ does not approve of you. Now is the time to examine all parts of your life! Doing so will benefit you in every way imaginable!

       

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