Everything is vanity ...
Milagros García Klibansky
SUMMARY: The author loves to sing but has feared that they are doing it for themselves instead of for God. They realized that they were struggling with jealousy and envy towards others and blamed them for not being able to sing in the congregation. However, they came to the realization that this was not pleasing to God and needed transformation. The author encourages us to confront ourselves every time we have an unhealthy feeling towards others and ask God for humility and tolerance. We should not let vanity lead us to anger and envy. The devil is always trying to devour us, so we must be sober and watchful.
As on other occasions I have told you, I love to sing, I feel that my soul overflows from my lips when I praise, but sometimes I have called myself a chapter because I have feared that I am not doing it for God but to gratify myself.
In fact, it has been a long time since I sang in the congregation and for a while I blamed other people for this, who did and even expressed that they would not let me sing because I overshadowed them, fool me! If it had been a purpose of God that I sang, surely I would have been in the praise group, but I had no criticism of what was happening to me, I even refused to give this feeling a name, I thank God that I can do it today, because God dealt with me and the demons that tormented me showed their names "jealousy" and "envy". When one recognizes this and knows that it is not pleasing to the heart of God, he has taken the first step so that God can do his work in us through of a process called "transformation."
In fact, it has been a long time since I sang in the congregation and for a while I blamed other people for this, who did and even expressed that they would not let me sing because I overshadowed them, fool me! If it had been a purpose of God that I sang, surely I would have been in the praise group, but I had no criticism of what was happening to me, I even refused to give this feeling a name, I thank God that I can do it today, because God dealt with me and the demons that tormented me showed their names "jealousy" and "envy". When one recognizes this and knows that it is not pleasing to the heart of God, he has taken the first step so that God can do his work in us through of a process called "transformation."
