A few years ago, an old couple helped me and my wife with
cheap rent for an apartment. We moved to the area with a promising career but
when we got there, the new employer I worked for clients wasn’t interested in
the projects anymore. His clients were dependent on one big factory/plant in that town and
there were rumours of letting some vendors go. Then we had to move from an
apartment we just started renting, after moving 150km from where we used to
live. So, me and my wife urgently prayed for a solution and for a roof over our
heads. Then this old couple from church told the pastor (church me and my wife just
started to attend after moving there), that they can help with this cheap apartment
till we are back on our feet.
I knew God called me to have my own business, that is the
reason why things went wrong the moment we got there. I started working on what
I felt God called me for, even sometimes till 4 in the mornings. I had a lot of
ideas for my business and knew God will bless it.
I shared my business passions with the old man I rented from
and he asked me to develop his software for his company to send out
invoices. I was very grateful for him helping me and my wife, so I agreed. Not
long after, the old man’s project started to grow so big that it took almost
all my time. For three month 98% off my time went into the software for his
company.
Almost at the end of the three months, I realized that the
old man was not really interested in the software anymore. Also, he started
telling his family and church people that I am too lazy to work, and we never
go anywhere, just stay in the apartment the hole day. When I greeted his son and ask him if
he was enjoying his visit to his dad, then he replied, I’m here to work, not
just sitting around. Also, the old man started telling me that I should wash and
polish my car, God can’t bless people that drive around with a dirty car.
Even though I was pushing his project and trying to get to
mine which was pushed aside. I started to wash my car and do things just to
keep him off my back. I had to look out for a job because we waisted 3 months on
his project and didn’t get other clients or any of our projects out on the
market. We had to get away from there, not just because he will not pay us for
the job, but the old man wanted us to prove ourselves the whole time. “The only
thing that will work, is what he says will work”.
Superstition is dangerous and they had a lot.
Luke 11:37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee
besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed
before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees
make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full
of ravening and wickedness.
40 Ye fools, did not he that made that
which is without make that which is within also?
41 But rather give alms
of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner
of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have
done, and not to leave the other undone.
43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the
synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
If you believe God can only bless you when your car is clean
and because you dress up. Then you better keep it that way, or else you will go
down. Whatever you say and believe, will come to pass.
The old man and his wife went away for two weeks. One of his
vehicles was gathering dust while he was away. The day before he came back, his
workers washed the vehicle. When he arrived, I asked him how it was going. He
then said he lost two of his biggest clients. At that moment he said it, I
looked at the vehicle that was gathering dust the previous days, and it’s like I
just realized, the power of superstition. He nearly lost everything in the two
weeks he wasn’t there to check that his vehicle left at home was cleaned.
Always ask yourself and most importantly God, is what you
believe from God. Anything else is from satan.
