The Chinese version is after the English one.
中文版本在英文版本下。
Who controls people’s fears? Look at the loan sharks.
Why are there people everywhere daring enough to lie, cheat, steal, take risks, and turn themselves into detested outcasts who renounce their families, all just to pay huge sums to the loan sharks?
The loan shark uses fear to manipulate people.
They know full well that even if a debtor could lay a little golden egg every month, the money won’t materialize in a day. Yet, they resort to harsh threats, disrupting your daily life, harassing your family, friends, and workplace, making you fear losing more, feeling extremely urgent and desperate, upending your life’s priorities so that repaying them becomes your top priority. Ideally, they want you to buckle under the pressure, forcing you to borrow more to pay off the accumulating interest, creating a snowballing debt. Then, to repay the debt, you would do anything.
When you have some money, they don’t allow you to pay off the principal, only the interest. Watching the interest grow daily, you can only become their slave.
If the human soul is also a battlefield, with forces of light and darkness pulling at it, the dark forces work like loan sharks, making people reorder their priorities to cope with fear, becoming slaves and drifting far from joy and peace. The laws of the Kingdom of Heaven are the opposite:
The Lord, with His own life, paid off all debts of sin at once, removing the sting of death. He knocks at the door, waiting for the willing heart. In His great power is endless abundance; seek, and you shall find. No matter if you have lied, cheated, stolen, taken risks, and turned yourself into a detested outcast, there are always arms waiting to embrace you, forever accepting, always hopeful, always with unimaginable wonders.
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誰掌握人的恐懼？看大耳窿。
為什麼四處有人夠膽偷呃拐騙、鋌而走險、把自己變成神憎鬼厭、六親不認的壞人，就是為了向大耳窿進貢巨款？
他們用恐懼操控人。
他們明明知道任債仔即使每月能生一隻小金蛋，錢都不能一日變出來，但偏偏要惡言恐嚇，騷擾你的日常生活，搞擾你的家人、朋友、工作場所，令你害怕失去更多，覺得極急、極急，巔倒你的人生優次，令還錢給他成為人生第一要務，最好令你抵受不住壓力，抵著以日計增長的利息，再借數填數，債務像雪球似的滾下去，然後為了還錢，什麼都幹得出。
你有了一點錢，他們不許你還本金，只可以還利息。眼看利息日日增長，你只可以做奴隸。
如果人的靈魂也是戰場，有光明和黑暗的力量在拉扯，黑暗勢力也像大耳窿這樣工作，令人為了應付恐懼，巔倒優次，成為奴隸，與快樂平安距離很遠。天國的法則卻與此相反：
上主以自己性命，給你，一次償還所有的罪債、去除死亡的毒鈎。祂在門外叩門，等人的心願意。在祂的大能裡有無盡的豐盛，只要尋求，便可得著。不論你是否偷呃拐騙、鋌而走險、把自己變成神憎鬼厭、六親不認的壞人，總有遙遙地等候的臂膀，永遠接納，永有盼望，永遠都有你想像不到的奇妙。
照片提供：Raymond Wong