As it is today, it was always tricky to discern the right and wrong or to distinguish the real and fake. In 1Kings chap 3 verses 16 to 28 , we see king Solomon facing this situation. Two woman come to him with a live child , each of them shouting and yelling at each other claiming that she is the mother of the live child and other is a fake. Unfortunately those were not times when science was advanced as today with DNA tests etc. So Solomon had to use the god given wisdom to find the real and fake. The King ordered “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.” One woman (fake mother) said ‘’Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two’’
But the other (real mother) said ‘’Please, my lord, ….! Don’t kill him’’ Solomon discern who is real and who is fake by looking at the attitude of the woman towards the child.
In John Chapt 8 Jesus teaches how to differentiate between a good shepherd and a deceiver.
The one who belong to devil speaks his native language of lies and he is a murderer , bring only destruction and chaos. In chapt 10 verse 10 it is stated “ The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy’’ A good shepherd knows his sheep and the sheep recognize him and follow him. A hired hand (like many of today’s servants of god for whom it is a profession or a paid job) run away when a wolf attacks the sheep.
Bible give us lot of historical real examples and Jesus uses lot of parables for us to understand the messages and to shape our own life. Sometimes these examples look amazing when we happen to confront some real situations very similar as in story.
As the real mother says to Solomon in verse 21 … when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t the son I had borne.” When we look at closely the insensitivity and the brutality of the church leaders in killing a very vibrant and live worshipping community and the incongruous apathy and the outright spiritual sloth of the leaders of the church in keeping the issue hanging in spite passionate pleas from all different corners, is a reflection of the inner face of fake shepherds in them who were feigned to be their spiritual mentors and leaders, the veil is now torn apart to the sheep. A minuscule power hungry group who were always against the smooth running of the church and were consigned to the fringes and having lost all hope of getting into positions of power conjured up with the idea ofKilling the church , the same destructive and insensitive mentality of the fake mother who said ’Neither I nor youshall have him. Cut him in two’’ Attitude of , if I can’t have u too should not have. The same attitude of Satan who was thrown out from heaven, take revenge by tricking the gullible woman so that she is also thrown out from her honored place of Eden. If I loose u too loose !! And the fake shepherds had no qualm to dance to the tune of the this handful of fake mothers and murder a worshipping community of sheep.
As the rays of sun can’t cover with a sieve, deceptions does not overshadow the truth for ever, we now recogize the deceivers and fakes.
Sajan