We must submit ourselves to God to be able to find freedom, its kind of paradoxical in a sense that you must lower yourself t move up. You must get rid of your pride, you must step down from your throne of decadence to become a servant of freedom. When I was young I wondered where existence ended, I wondered if the sky, the plate behind the stars, was the edge of existence. If our Universe was boxed within the sky, the impenetrable wall, I would be unsatisfied, because I would wonder what was beyond this box, behind these walls. And if the universe was truly infinite, I would feel hopeless as I would never understand its magnitude, but if I did, I would be boxed. Either way I was unsatisfied, whether existence was boxed, or whether it was infinite. This sky, that boxes in the universe, that declares the limits in our lives, these are the laws of pride, like a bubble stuck in its ceiling, it must let go of its highest place, to reach the higher, and it must remain under no ceiling, to be able to always have a vision of the Infinite above its head, for it to keep moving up, higher and higher. We must not lie to ourselves, that existence is boxed in, just to satisfy our desire to conquer all knowledge, because even if existence is boxed, in our hearts we still wonder, what dwells beyond. Lets remove our covers, and witness the truth, and like this, lets move ever upward.
God above all
Paralyzed by fear - In a class I took about Jesus, we talked about the paralytic that Jesus healed, Jesus told him, “your sins are forgiven...” How does this work? In the class we made reference to present and tangible examples: it happens many times, that the result of oppression the guilt all those negative emotions, depression and anger, manifests itself as a disease. We can see its possible because there is the present example of all the disorders and diseases caused by stress, its because of all the oppression thats present in our culture, thee reason for all this sickness. The reason why there were many sick gentiles in the roman empire in those days, was because of all the oppression they were going through (this is real, this has happened, do not be afraid to learn how God makes sense, do not be afraid of God’s wisdom). When Jesus came along and forgave their sins, they were healed, they were freed of all their stress, all their fear, anything that they were concerned about, the One Jew that said, that they were worthy of living, that there was nothing wrong with them; the gentiles felt guilty and were oppressed by the jews, but this Jew accepted them, and their curse was lifted.Jesus accepted them when no other would... (what does this say about our character). Oppression by fear, bondage from addiction, to fast food, to alcohol. There are many ways you can heal, there are infinite ways to stay alive, why is there so many obese people, an overwhelming example, it all begins with our mind, we do not feel free to run, to eat healthy food, there is also psychological oppression, is what obviously causes anorexia, an overwhelming example, and depression from it.. it is all oppression, how do you let go?
I think about this, sometimes I am tempted, I am being bound by my carnal desires, we are addicted to certain things, why? I think about it, and you should to, now obeserve, that the object of temptation is offering an experience. We crave this experience because its new to us, we feel safe in it, we feel like if its something new, we see freedom in it, we love. But we are wrongfully projecting love and freedom on this object, this corruptible symbol now means freedom to us, we love it, we have faith in it as if it was God. I want to let you know that God can not only remove this craving, but he can satisfy it. Your desire for the experience is not the sin, the sin is thinking that you can only obtain this experience from the object that you see, and forgetting that God is abundant in blessings, that he is comprehensive in wonders, and that he never lets you down.
Memories that stalk, Isaiah 54:4
How to forget?
Take the trunk out of your own eye, before you try to remove the speck from your neighbors eye, what does this mean? I learned this when I reflected on when before I rejected certain people for doing certain things. I learned that rejecting the rejector did not make me better than them, and I was not justified in rejecting them (why?), but by rejecting them I was becoming just like them. Before we criticize, we must remove our desire to criticize, we must cleanse ourselves from that hatred, from that pride that makes us tell others that they are wrong and that this is the right way, that should never even come into our mind. By criticizing others we think we are doing good, we think we are better than them, we think we are doing something good, we think we are taking a speck out of their eye, but we do not see that there is a trunk in our own. Instead of rejecting them, we must seek to understand their point of view, their reasons for their actions, their side, their story, we must never scold them, but be compassionate towards them, reflecting on what they are doing. We must nott hold ANYTHING against them, and when I say anything I mean that sometimes we think we are not holding anything against them when we really are. If we leave them saying, “oh well, God will condemn you someday,” and you leave with the thought in your mind that he has a problem, then you have the problem, he may have the speck but you have the trunk. Even if you leave saying, hope God removes that sin from you, you still have that speck, because in reality, there may be nothing wrong with him and you are just dwelling on negative emotions, living in this illusion that is making you worry, that is making you feel disconnected from God, like there is somehting wrong, its distracting, even if its only that you are worrying for their salvation, it is blinding you from seeing their true character, it is blinding you from seeing the blessings that they may have in themselves by being concerned about the sin that YOU see in them, that sin is in YOUR eye.The feeling that we get when we do not condemn others for doing such and such, and when we do not worry about their salvation, or that they may be on the wrong path, when we let go of that, we feel joy, the joy is a reflection of the faith we have that God’s will, will be done. Do not worry, pray for each other, but when you look at your neighbor, make sure that you do not have a speck in your eye, but remove it so that you can see clearly, that you never really know what they are going through, you are able to see that even if they are in sin, that they are already saved by the blood of Jesus, you are able to see clearly, that even though they may not have accepted Jesus, that they still have hope, pray for them, then do not worry the Holy Spirit will do its will, the blessings of God will take their course. Pray for them and have faith, without a speck in your eye.
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