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On 10 Aug 2017 13:25:17 GMT, fool for Christ wrote:

"The enemy likes to hide the truth and to mix good with evil. But how can
one find out the truth? God's goodwill and all our intentions are meek,
full of
good hope, and undoubting.

Not only in our good deeds, but also in our lawlessness, God endures long >with meekness and awaits our repentance. And how can one distinguish the >impulse of the enemy? The enemy usually hinders us and turns us away from >good. However, if in anything which apparently is good, the mind is
disturbed and causes us disturbance, banishes the fear of God, deprives us
of calmness, so that without any reason the heart aches and the mind
wavers, then know that this is an impulse from the enemy and cut it off."

St. Paisius Velichkovsky.

ROTFLOL! Really? This poor person and you have gotten things
backwards. Unless you are calling God your enemy, in which case you
just have poor English.

Satan mixes evil in with the good he see's. Like Theotokos in with the
Gospel message, like getting drunk on wine when taking communion.

Intentions are unaccomplished goals, faith without works of faith is
dead faith. Worthless, except for fooling oneself with vain
self-righteousness.

"our good deeds"? evil does hide there when your deeds are self
defined and are matters of convenience. Your lawlessness? For sure, as
in our flesh dwells no good thing. Your impulses stem from your
fleshly desires, the ones you entertain and dwell on. What turns you
away from "good" is your vanity, the desire to fulfill the lust of the
flesh, whether it be gluttony or whoredom's.

The mind of a born again person is being renewed by God for as long as
one is willing and walking in the spirit, if you are quenching the
Holy Spirit so that you are able to focus on the lusts of your fleshly
desire then you are giving yourself over to sin.

The mere thought of a wavering mind shows your double mindedness as in
James. Do not think you are going to receive anything of Gods.

The person that wrote this thing you posted was operating out of the
flesh. That you would glorify it speaks to your spiritual state.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)