CELLPHONES and COMPUTERS (Spiritual FICTION)

Revelina Malinnag                                                                                Approximately 3428 words 

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                         ARE CELLPHONES and COMPUTERS, TWO of the SIGNS?

                                                              (THE END of THE WORLD)

                                                                   By Revelina Malinnag

              

“Will you stop that thing you are doing?”   A fat woman wearing a black short pant and a

red tube showing halves of her tops was waiting outside with indescribable face when I opened

my door for knocking me so loud, one day at twelve o’clock high noon while I was singing

praises unto GOD.  Then she walked away.

 

 Every day at ten o’clock in the morning till one o’clock in the afternoon, I’m singing

 always at least ten to twelve praise songs unto HIM so loud, while I accompany with my very

 special keyboard that I considered as one of the best gift of GOD to me seven years ago.  I

believe in GOD and I’m scare from HIM since I was yet so young.  My parents are believers and

 I’ve learned from them a lot of things about GOD.

 We are new in this area. We just moved in here two months ago.  I use my headphone

and recording studio software that I downloaded from the internet to record my songs.

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             The other neighborhood on her left side, always putting their music, louder than my

own music; it could be as loud as discotheque; every afternoon as well; as if she’d never

hear them at all; I say so because I can even here in my home.  I thought that they could be

friends, that’s why she’d ignoring them. From that time I was thinking why that woman hates

me then! That’s not fair!  I’m singing praise and she hated to hear them? 

  I prayed GOD as usual before I go to bed. I couldn’t sleep yet, so I took my cellphone

and clicked on the BIBLE to read.  Without looking what to read, it just pop out this verse that

says “If the world hates you, you know that it hated ME before it hated you”. That was written

in the book of John chapter fifteen verse eighteen.

                                                                                                                   

As I go out to work on Monday at one thirty in the afternoon, I met the woman’s

husband.  I said Hello and he smiled as replied me so gently when I asked him how’s their baby.

 “We don’t have a baby yet”.   A sad response.  “I’m so sorry to hear that”, I said,

as I started walking away while saying, “See you later”. I just found out that his wife lied to

me, when she came knocking on my door yelling that their baby cannot sleep.

I walked from my home to work every day.  It’s only about twenty minutes walking

distance.  I worked from two o’clock every afternoon until seven o’clock at night; Monday to

 Thursday only.  Anyway, at my work, Teresa, one of the employee, has been treating me

so bad; she’s not my manager. She worked as cashier like me; she’s not even a friend of my

employer but she likes acting like either of them.  She’d never liked to do anything; she was

always sitting down busy with her cellphone or either eating or sleeping.  When she’s awake,

she’d never stood up to her register machine, even though she’d been seeing those many

customers who were falling in line for a long time to pay.

                                                                                                                

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 She’s of the same nationality with my employer and my manager, so she’d been

thinking that she could do whatever she wanted to.  That was the first reason I knew for

 sure why she’s been treating me that way, because I was not bad to her at all.

 She couldn’t speak fluent English and of course she couldn’t read nor write English either.

 One day, she had a letter from her life insurance company; I saw her reading it with a

 very red face like someone spang her; she knew, she needed my help coz she couldn’t

understand the letter at all.  She came to me like a very poor innocent rat and asked my help.

  So I did for her what she needed to do.  A lot of letters she’d been receiving from everywhere

like banks’ notices etcetera and all of them were written in English; I did help her in all that she

asked me to do after translating to her what the letters are saying; calling for her lawyer, and

discussing with the offices in her behalf.

 She thought that she would never need me in the first place; nevertheless, after

everything that I’ve done for her, she went back the way she’d been treating me again!  So

discouraging!  I just felt so sad thinking why people are like that?  And you know what? She

claims that she is a Christian! Did it happen this ever to you?  Say, you are good to such person

or, let’s say a friend of yours; you always help her whenever she needs you, and after all, it

turns out to be your best enemy, opposing you in everything? 

  

Actually, all our customers in the store didn’t like her bad attitude; most of them were

telling me that she is so rude!   They had been always looking for me if they didn’t find me in

front of my cash register machine, though she was there standing and available.  The manager

told me about it many times; sometimes I go out for my lunch out, to the bathroom or when it’s

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my off; “customers are always looking for you, Reina”, the manager informed me again one day

while I was running like a horse in order to swipe my card to clocking in.  The manager couldn’t

wait till I’ll be able to check in; he was so excited and happy that at least one of the employees

is making his day great!  “I asked them, why are they looking for you, and all of them gave me

very nice words and good comments about you; they said, you are so kind and good to them”,

the manager was raising up his voice for me to hear; he’s standing about five to six meters away

from my register wherein I was preparing. Teresa heard everything so vividly. She was

standing right exactly beside the manager at that moment. So she became worse to me than

 ever!  She started commanding me doing things that it’s not even a cashier’s duty.  She’d been

 yelling at me in purpose to embarrass me in front of the customers!  That was so ridiculous! I

feel really so embarrassed!   I began to feel that my blood was so hot, boiling so high!  I was

trembling and started to feel like I wanted to run and spang her making her face red like the

 way she looks like when she came to me like an innocent rat asking help from me couple of

days ago!  I wanted to fight back, yelling at her too although I’ve never used to fight against

other people.  Despite of that, I managed to whisper GOD saying, “GOD, help me, coz I don’t

want to do something wrong”.  Then, I told her only a simple but very sharp words like a double

 edged knife!  “I will ONLY listen to my manager”!  I yelled back at her. When the manager

heard what I said, he yelled at her, “shut up your mouth now, Teresa”!  So she walked away, so

 fast to acting like arranging stuffs on the shelf, hiding herself from any customer that possibly

 heard the manager shouting at her.

           

The next morning, I saw her face like she lost something!  Her face was indescribable! 

She wasn’t talking.  She wasn’t looking for some works for me to do as she used to do.  There

must be something wrong, I thought.  My heart is so soft, that even though that person who

deals with me bad is not asking for an apology, I still pity her when I see that seems to be in

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trouble.  Like Teresa, I pitied her and asked how she is. She said, she has a stomach trouble!  

Accordingly, she didn’t go the bathroom for elimination six succeeding days.  So sad and

worried looking at me. “You should drink a lot of water”, I advised.  Then I thought to better

send her to the doctor, “anyway I am here with the Manager” I comforted her.  She left after

maybe an hour.

It was a weak already have past, but I didn’t see Teresa coming in to work from the day

she left for the doctor. I wondered why, so I asked the manager if he know what happened to

her; “yes, she called me yesterday and told me that she’s not coming anymore”, the manager

replied.  The doctor’s diagnosis for her was a cancer!  She didn’t tell the manager all the

details, except telling him not to go back to work anymore because she has a cancer.  I was

really shocked to what I heard.

 

I’ve never expected to hear that real sad news about my co-worker!  However, as I

was walking back home, I was thinking so much what happened to Teresa that it seemed to be

connected to what GOD said in the Bible!  I remember what HE said in Deuteronomy 32:35

 MKJV  “Vengeance and retribution belong to ME. Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of

 their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come on them make haste”. Also in Romans

12:17 MKJV says, “Repay no one evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men”.

I was thinking about this while walking home.  I didn’t really want to take my revenge nomatter what people are doing to me, because I trust in GOD;  I believe that HE is faithful to HIS

promises!  

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Almost all the trees that I was passing by are likened to naked bald men parading while dancing in the dark by the sweet freshening autumn winds. I could smell the dried leaves and

flowers that are fallen down to the ground.  Every one that I passed by, old folks sitting on the

 benches, aged sixty to ninety, are holding cellphones talking with friends and relatives; young

 adults at the age of thirty to fifty-eight perhaps, or young people from twenty to thirty, married

 or not married as well as teenagers, are busy texting to their boyfriends or girlfriends if not

doing many inappropriate things on the internet!  I noticed that even the children now a day

from seven years old are already all holding cell phones making themselves busy playing

different downloaded games instead of doing their school assignments and home works!  Ah! I

guess, all people now of today have cellphones in their hands!  I sighed!  I looked up! I saw the

the smiling moon racing with me while walking.  It’s shining brightly so I could see them clearly

while I was walking home.

 I was getting near my home when I saw lots of people at the house of my fat bad

neighbor who yelled at me and lied that their baby cannot sleep, so I had to stop singing those

praise songs unto GOD.  Their house was wide open, I was wondering why. Then I saw my

husband coming from that house as soon as he saw me.  I asked him, what’s going on in there.  

“The fat woman had a car accident and died so I’ve to pay a visit as a neighbor for the sake of

her good husband”, he replied.  “What?”  I exclaimed! “Oh my GOD! You’re really alive and

watching everything in this world!  I know and I believe that YOU mean everything You’ve said,

LORD”.  I whispered to GOD again while I was entering in my home with my husband.

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I believe in GOD and I’m scare from HIM since I was twelve but when I am thinking what happened to these bad women, they made me scare more!  I waited for my husband to sleep

coz I wanted to meditate; I didn’t want to be disturbed.  I prayed to GOD so deeply from the

bottom of my heart. 

 “Oh LORD my GOD and HEAVENLY FATHER, tell me please what to do so that people

would hear YOU and learn more about YOU; how can I tell them to turn their eyes upon YOU?

 I’m scare LORD GOD that their badness or bad behavior on me would cause me to do

something wrong too one day and I don’t want that ever to be happened coz I don’t want to be

punished also LORD GOD.  So please guide me always. Protect me and my children from

anything wrong, and from temptations of the evil one. YOU know that I love YOU, I adore YOU

and I praise YOU always.  I worship and lift YOUR NAME on HIGH.  YOUR NAME is above all

names LORD SWEET JESUS”; I pray this in YOUR MIGHTY NAME, amen”.

Then I saw a man in front of me. His face appeared in a close up view, so great like the

movie screen!  He’s smiling at me and spoke to me so kindly.  He said, “Open your Bible and

read Mark 1: 17”. I turned my face to look for my cellphone, coz I downloaded the Bible in here.

I look at HIM again to ask Him questions but I found Him no more.  He disappeared! I opened

therefore my Bible right away and guess what is written in Mark 1:17 MKJV  “And JESUS said

to them, Come after ME and I will make you fishers of men”.

I called my Dad immediately and explained to him everything that have

happened; the issue of my neighbor; what she did to me while I was singing praises unto

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GOD then she had a car accident and died after a few days; I told him about my co-

worker who became ill from cancer after all the bad things she did to me a work; that

what happened to them seems to have connections with what they did to me!  That

cared me!  And when I prayed GOD, a big close up gentle face appeared to me, telling

me to open my Bible and read Mark 1:17.  My Dad is a Pastor, so he knows what is

written in Mark 1:17.  Therefore, he explained to me that JESUS wants me to become a

fisher of men!

I asked him then, “How can I become a fisher of men?  How can I go knocking on door

to door these days? People may even call the police for me if I ever do that.  Second, I’ve no car! So,

how can I obey GOD then, I’m so scare!” 

“Take it easy”, my Dad comforted me.  “How can I relax Dad, I don’t even have a car”, I

replied.  He explained that I don’t need a car or to go knocking on doors any longer like

before, during the time of JESUS; He said, “During HIS time, there were no cellphones, internet

nor cars. They walked or used boats and ships to go preach the Gospel if they need to go other cities. HE knows from that time, there will be lots of means to spread HIS WORD today such as TV, radio, Internets, etcetera; so when HE told you that HE will make you a fisher of men, HE didn’t mean to make you tired for HIM”, my dad continued while I was listening to him on the phone.

           

            While he was on the line, he let me checked what is written in Luke 12:3 MKJV”

“Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light. And that which you have spoken in the ear in secret rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops”.  In that time, JESUS 

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was already telling HIS disciples that whatever is being spoken or being proclaimed at night is

being heard in the day time!  How?  HE meant of today!  It’s been happening already  

from the time the Radio was invented; even the old types of telephone, all the kinds of

communication devices that need antennas and wires which are being placed on the

rooftops; cables, satellites dishes, wires that make the cellphones and internet works are

placed on the rooftops.

 For instance, the President is talking tonight here in Unites states of America,

at the SAME TIME he’s being heard during the day time in Asia. So JESUS was talking

about the internet and cell phones. 

My Dad said, “if I call my friend in Hong Kong (Asia) by my Cellphone right now, wherever I am, in USA during the night time here, it is day time in Hong Kong.  That’s the other meaning of spoken in the ear in a secret rooms shall be proclaimed on the rooftops; .and if I want you to write something for me to post on Social media like Facebook, I will just give you the reference by the use of my cellphone and post it for me on Facebook”, he added. In this example, it is proclaiming HIS WORD through the using of Dad’s cellphone and the internet.

            I was so happy that I found out the way to fishing men without going out knocking on

doors. But there’s another problem! I leaned on the couch looking straight to the white painted

wall, thinking that for sure I need money even though I work on the internet; I need to pay the

the different sites, social media and online magazines to spread the WORD of GOD globally.

As I’m staring outside the widow next to the wall, I just found myself that I’m inside a pinkish-

red brand new shining car. I don’t know how I went inside that car.  A man in very white clean

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clothes; HE’s sitting in front of the wheel. HE looks like the same man who told me to read the

book of Mark 1:17, a very a handsome man with a very sweet gentle face! He said, “come sit in

my place and drive”.  I said, I can’t drive.  Then HE said, “Yes, you can, hurry up because we need

to go right now”. Then He jump out from the sit while the car was turning so speedy around a

big, tall post in a big mall. Because I got so scared, I forgot that I don’t know how to drive; I

took the wheel, and drove. There was no other way  but to go up by the escalator! I did a

quick strong break, then I look up; I couldn’t see the end of the escalator that supposed to be

the second floor!  But I just pushed the gas and don’t know how I drove so fast till I found

myself up!  It wasn’t a second floor as I thought but a very long road and a narrow one.  A lot of

kids were touching my car and asking me bread to eat. They said, they are hungry. That’s the

only time I’ve noticed that I was all alone by myself from yet the time I took the wheel!  I look

behind me just in case, I thought, but I found a lot of Bibles, instead!  My car was full of Bible? I

thought then, that was angel who gave me this car full of Bible to give to the kids?

           

I distributed to everybody who were in front of me until I went home. I felt so tired so I

went to sleep. When I woke up, I realized that the man could be an angel that was sent to give

me a message.  What’s the message? That I have to spread HIS WORD by anyhow; it could be

by utilizing any free social Media in any way; if there is money coming, I have to buy lots of

Bibles and distribute to people; they need to read it; lots of people are hungry of HIS WORD.  I

must put up church buildings also if ever I will become millionaire and support Pastors to take

care of the founded church buildings where people can worship GOD. I sighed again, but this

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time, I was smiling and excited!

           

Until now, I am writing lots of Scriptural, Spiritual articles to my Google blog, Facebook

age, in my Twitter account, etcetera; anywhere I am, I ‘m always talking about JESUS; HIS

LOVE, HIS AMAZING GRACE, HIS FAITHFULNESS in all HIS promises. The world must know,  GOD is good all the time!

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