Lydia and Joy Stealer
Lydia is a servant of the Most High. She is very conscious of being open to His
leading her into various ministry opportunities. Even her job in the working world allows her
to come into contact with many people in person in her work place, as well as
on the phones, helping them with their find solutions for many for their daily
problems in the words of the Book.
Most people who had met Lydia would say that she was a
very happy person. So full of laughter
and good cheer that she almost always wore a smile on her face and sang songs
of the Most High wherever she went.
Living in the city of the Most High was a criminal
named Joy Stealer. Now the Joy Stealer
was a loyal servant of the Enemy of the Most High. His crime was to take away the happiness and
good cheer of all the servants of the Most High, thus getting them to leave His
service and wander aimlessly among the Wastelands of Despair. In this way he added to the followers of the
Enemy.
For many years Joy Stealer had followed the servants of
the Most High weakening their defenses and throwing stumbling blocks into their
paths, and he was very good at his job.
But he try as he might Joy Stealer could find no way to break down the
defenses of Lydia and take away the happiness she had flowing forth through her
life. So Joy Stealer sought the help of
other servants of the Enemy. He sent
minor slaves to spy on her day and night to learn what could be used against
her to make her falter in her service to the Most High.
Darkness and Depression each found places of rest among
the folds of Lydia’s robes. They rode
along with her for many days making notes to take back to Joy Stealer. After about two weeks of this research to
find a chink in Lydia’s armor Darkness and Depression reported back to Joy
Stealer their findings.
“Master,” Darkness started, “We have found no failing
in her that you may exploit.”
“What!” yells Joy Stealer, “Than why have you
returned?”
“Well, Great One,” Depression continued, “She has no
weakness, however we did notice that she ALWAYS wears an MP3 player with stereo
headset over her ears.”
“That’s right,” Darkness agreed, “she listens to the
music of the Most High both day and night continuously. She never removes the speakers from her
ears.”
Now Joy Stealer had an idea. “I will plug her ears so she cannot hear the
music of the Most High. She will think
that her MP3 player has quit functioning and look for another. While she is seeking I will fill her life
with so many of these people she is so willing to be of assistance to that she
will be totally overwhelmed and exhausted and her loyalty will slowly begin to
falter.
After getting a good nights rest, Joy Stealer began
this new tactic to attack Lydia and turn her from the service of the Most High. He began it very slowly, blocking her hearing
for just an hour or two at a time until by the end of the first week he had
totally blocked the music from her ears altogether. In the second week he started adding more and
more responsibilities and people with needs in her path that she had to take
care of.
The smile was now starting to fade from Lydia’s face
and the songs of joy had all but vanished from her heart. By the end of the third week exhaustion was
taking a toll on her physical well-being.
She wasn’t sleeping well at night, as the toils of the day wouldn’t
leave her mind. She wasn’t eating
properly either, as the constant turmoil was keeping her stomach rolling and
nothing tasted good in her mouth any more.
Joy Stealer had done his job very well thanks to the research of
Darkness and Depression. So well even
that he had brought them back to Lydia to place her in such a state of gloom
that she would forever forsake her job of service to the Most High.
But the Most High
was not one to accept the loss of even one of His subjects without a
fight. He sent His Son, Peace Giver, to
personally sing in the ears of Lydia His most precious songs of comfort and
joy. To Peace Giver the Most High gave
the gift of invisibility so that Joy Stealer could not see or detect His
presence. This allowed Him to stand
right behind Lydia and sing right in her ears.
Joy Stealer couldn’t hear Peace Giver’s singing either for he had no peace
in his being. Only those who chose
service to the Most High and had made a place for peace to live in their hearts
could hear the music of the Most High.
This gave Peace Giver the clear advantage in the battle for Lydia’s
mind, and He made full use of this advantage.
Peace Giver sang his
songs of comfort and joy loudly and constantly in Lydia’s ears. He had no need for rest or food as he was
sustained totally by the love of the Most High. During this battle for her mind, Lydia
didn’t realize that the music of the Most High had disappeared from her
hearing. She had thought that the MP3
player had malfunctioned, so she thought to replace it. But no MP3 player seemed to play the songs of
the Most High that she had long cherished, so she gave up on trying to replace
her player and gradually dismissed the lack of it’s music. It wasn’t that any of the equipment was
faulty; it was the plugs put in place by Joy Stealer that filtered out the
music. But Peace Giver was there singing
all the while.
Lydia finally got so
sick and tired that she began to call out to the Most High for health and
strength. This prayer started cracking
the plugs placed in her ears by Joy Stealer.
Now Lydia began hearing strains of the songs sung in her ears by Peace
Giver. Her body was very weakened from
the many weeks it had been deprived of its music. Her mind was tense from it’s over working to
meet the needs of those she had thought placed in her path by the Most High –
yet which were in truth the trap of Joy Stealer. But hope was beginning to return with the
renewed connection to the missing sounds of the songs she had long been
accustomed to hearing both night and day for all the years of her service to
the Most High.
Although she had
been sharing her trials with her mentor, Mrs. Calming Comforter, Lydia had
found no peace in Calming’s words with out her music.
Today as she left
her office for a weekend retreat at the Sea Shore, the plugs that had blocked
the music fell from Lydia’s ears and she could clearly hear the beautiful voice
of Peace Giver singing to her the precious songs of the Most High. Joy Stealer had lost the battle for Lydia’s
mind – and ultimately for her service.
She has now recommitted herself to the job given her by the Most High in which she worked serving those of His kingdom in the solving their problems, whatever they
may be. And she has again in place the
headset of her MP3 player so that she can hear, night and day, the songs of the
Most High; especially those she had heard sung personally by Peace Giver as He
sang in her ears during the battle fought for her mind and her service.
Joy Stealer has been
sent out of the city of the Most High to wander with his cohorts Darkness and
Depression in the Wastelands of Despair until the end of all time when they
three would join the Enemy in the pits of Hell for Eternity.
~*~
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and
to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they
might have it more abundantly. John
10:10
And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you
again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name,
he will give [it] you. Hitherto have ye
asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be
full. John 16:22-24
And Always Remember:
Do Not ALLOW Satan to Steal Your Joy!
