Your Sworn Enemy
We all hear thoughts in our minds that make one ask himself, How can I even think of something like this? The voice sounds just like ours, but it doesn’t feel like us — so we say thoughts are just thoughts, and we just try to forget them.
In the books that are believed to be the words of God, that voice inside our heads is described as the making of the devil — an enemy whose fate to Hell is sealed. But in the time he still has, he wants to take all of us with him. His only weapon to do that is to whisper.
So he whispers in the hearts of men. He commands to do what is evil and vice, and to say about God what one doesn’t really know. He first tries to make you do what is most evil. If he can’t, then less evil. If he still can’t, then he tries to prevent you from doing what is good. If he can’t as well, then he tries to persuade you from doing what is more good to doing what is less. And he always stays hidden.
When you follow him, he says: You’ve done it to yourself. I had no power over you. I just whispered, and you followed. I do fear God, and I’m innocent from what you’ve done.
He’s not innocent — but the rest is true.
While it’s difficult to control what is whispered in your heart, the thoughts you disregard, and the thoughts you follow, are only yours to control.