I downloaded 11 videos on You Tube, I had no problem with 5 of them but with 6 of them I had a warning. I didn’t need to do anything but I was infringing the copy right. I was frightened but I didn’t do anything because I wanted those videos on the net. I was afraid that if I ask permission I would have to pay for those copyrights. How can I compete with big companies, I am just a house wife, with little income? I believed that this was the only way I could do my part for the Kingdom of God, even if it meant to infringe the copyrights of others. My last and 12 video was block worldwide by WBM.
After New Year’s my pastor Carlos preach a sermon that we were doing on the book of John. I was angry with WBM for stopping the work I was doing for God but then my Lord stop me and said,
“… Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”
John 3:20-21
Facing such truth was painful, to say the least. Confronting my own sin against a faceless corporation felt unnatural. I thought that corporations were the enemy, the bad guys but God showed me that I the one hiding in darkness. It is humbling to recognize that I was blind to see that those corporations are made of people, artist, parents, maybe even my own brothers and sisters in Christ. Asking there forgiveness is humiliating because I have to recognize my hidden sin, my pet sin to them.
I know that God show me this truth not to humiliate me but to transform me. Just like the Son trusted the Father, I have to trust my Lord. What could be the worst thing that can happen? If I don’t get the permission, I can’t share videos, but my relationship with my Lord would still be intact. Jesus asks of me to trust in Him. I should not use my own rezoning. He is the only one who can face the Music and Anime Corporations. If it's his will, He will make it happen.
