RANDOM THOUGHTS PURPOSIVE HEART

 Random Thoughts with a Purposive Heart

by Jonas T. Suizo

There’s something tragic yet common in human nature: people who are not even religious often feel entitled to pry into spiritual matters they neither understand nor have ever experienced. They speak as though they know, and judge as though they see. Yet in truth, their judgment is foolish and their conclusions unjust.

Imagine someone marching into the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI)—the body created by President Marcos Jr. to address corruption in the DPWH—carrying photos and accusations, but no evidence or truth to back them up. What would you call that? Disturbed, impulsive, emotionally unstable. When the spiritual is mixed with the unclean—lust, imagination, and unchecked emotion—the result is chaos.

Why, then, would anyone sacrifice their spiritual youth by choosing to mingle with an unbeliever? Some think they’ll grow stronger in faith by being with someone “intelligent” or “successful” from the world. But that thinking is fatally flawed. God’s thoughts are not man’s thoughts, and His ways are not the world’s ways. The world will always find God’s wisdom foolish—yes, even devilish.

“Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?” — John 8:48

“And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?” — John 10:20

“But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.” — Matthew 12:24

Even the Son of God was accused of being possessed! So what makes us think the world will view godly things with reverence?

Jesus gave us the true test of spiritual reality: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” If a sister in the faith finds herself tangled with a worldly man and shows forth the fruits of the flesh rather than the fruit of the Spirit, then we already know the root of the problem. The issue isn’t the world’s corruption—it’s our compromise.

My counsel is simple: never engage the world unnecessarily unless God Himself commands it. The world has nothing godly to offer, for it lacks three things—the True God, the Law, and the Teaching Priest.

“Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.” — 2 Chronicles 15:3

And to those foolish men who keep meddling and stirring up strife among the faithful, let Gamaliel’s wisdom in the book of Acts speak loud and clear:

“Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought;
But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.” — Acts 5:38–39

That’s the truth of it. Some battles are not ours to fight, and some causes are untouchable because they are of God.

So let the world pry, mock, and meddle. Our task is not to argue but to stand firm—purposive in heart, discerning in spirit, and unmoved by foolish noise.