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Is life really hard?

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You have heard it all your life. Life is hard, and then you die. It’s a dog eat dog world. Suck it up, it only get worse. Life only gets harder as you get older.

With a mentality like this, it is no wonder there are so many cases of mental illness out there. This type of mentality actually serves to make life harder and only produce a life of despair.

Studies show that the life is hard mentality doesn’t bear much fruit in life.

What does the Bible say about a hard life?

The primary verse that jumps to mind is “the way of the transgressor is hard”. You can google the location for yourself. I believe it is in Proverbs or Psalms. There are verses like Psalm 1 that says the way of the righteous is prosperous and brings for much fruit; not necessarily pertaining to material gain.

Since a transgressor’s life is so hard, what exactly is a transgressor?

Paul defined sin as transgression of the law.  Since it is the law that brings for the knowledge of sin, or sin consciousness, and Jesus said that love fulfills the law, then transgressing the law is following it in a way that awakens the sin consciousness which only condemns us.

Sin is missing the mark. We miss the point that it is all about love by abiding in the tree of knowledge of good and evil and keeping each individual commandment. The The result is our life becomes harder because, rather than simply abiding in a state of childlike innocence in the Tree of Life, we are now attempting to build a man-made tower of Babel.

Sounds familiar?

“Who told you that you were naked?”-God to Adam and Eve.

Life was created to be simple.

  • Till the earth
  • Revere (fear) God and keep His commandments (not because you have to or fear of hell)
  • Take care of each other

Through the Tower of Babel, man has tried to build a utopia and the result was chaos, confusion, and a very complicated and hard life.

Maybe life wouldn’t be so hard if it wasn’t for people. (You will figure the joke there soon).

GK Chesterton said in one of his books that socialism may be what saves the world though it is the least desired system. By socialism, I don’t mean the political system. More of an anarchist system where people choose to live communally and love is the currency.

Every time I mention love being a currency, I crack myself up. I can’t help thinking of every time I tried to use love as currency it ended up resulting in criminal charges.

Okay so that was a bad joke. We can’t win them all.

There is very little difference between political systems. They all have their good points and bad points. Whenever you lose focus on the Divine and focus on the political system itself, it becomes corrupt and everyone gets enslaved.

In closing it is also good to note that you will never find freedom within any political system. Freedom is purely spiritual and only flows from being in right relationship with God. Although from the Universalist perspective, everyone already is (spiritual Jew & Gentile). There is no “getting saved”, only the knowledge of salvation.

Anything you say can and will be used against you

/ E Bishop Wooten

Philippians 1: 21. . .”To live is Christ and to die is gain.”

The words spoken by the Apostle Paul where in laymen’s terms basically wished he was dead. Although with the belief in eternal life, he wouldn’t really be dead. But to a lost and dying world this phrase would probably come off as sounding suicidal.

It’s not uncommon for people today to see the corruption of the world and long for a better one. If it can’t be established here then many long for the next life, even if there isn’t one. Even Solomon said in the book of Ecclesiastes that it was better to never have been born than to see all of the corruption that goes on under the sun.

This is why Jesus said to die to ourselves. When you lose your will to live, focus on serving a higher purpose. The only path worth pursuing is spiritual enlightenment.

Also don’t judge someone who appears spiritual but doesn’t profess Christianity. Even the religion itself has become tainted by the world. Many who reject it may still be led by the Spirit indirectly.

We also don’t want to judge someone who takes their own life. We all have to go sometime. Maybe that is the way the Holy Spirit led them to go. When a person has all they can take of this life and takes life into their own hands, this could still be from God.

I have had suicidal thoughts for 16 years. It is my will to live that keeps me alive. The corrupt healthcare system tells us that we don’t have any willpower of our own. Sadly professional help is nothing more than a sales gimmick these days. They will try and keep is dependent on the system for as long as they can. At times it will seem overpowering. All you have to do is understand the origins of the Pharmaceutical system.

As much as I hate to lie, sometimes you have to in this world For instance not disclosing one has a mental illness diagnosis for fear of losing their license or losing a job. Also not disclosing bad thoughts so you don’t get arrested. You have to really know yourself though. Just follow you conscious and do what is right for you. For me, I have had a doctor tell me that f I know I am not going to hurt myself and the episodes pass within a day or so, just ride them out and harness my coping strategies.

To sum it up, maybe thoughts of death are really just homesickness for someplace that only our faith assures us exists. It may not be depression after all. You can’t fully trust the system that writes prescriptions so flippantly just so they can get their quota. But if you don’t want to be enslaved to the luciferan paradise, there is only one place left to turn.

Power for the humble

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2 Cor. 12:9. . .”And He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness ‘ Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.”
What weakness are you struggling with? Are you experiencing the power of God in your life? Remember God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. You can only experience God’s power when you truly realize how weak you are. How else can God be glorified? Maybe you have dreams of getting a certain job but have some type of disorder that keeps you from getting it. With God’s help, He will help you to get it in His own timing, and when you do you won’t have anything to boast about because you will have been too humbled from realizing your own weaknesses. Remember God wants to bless you but He has to take you through a fire first so that when He does give you what your hearts desire is you won’t be too full of confidence in yourself.
Maybe your weakness is depression or an addiction and you’re enslaved to some sin. As you realize your helpless to beat it by your own power and throw yourself at the mercy of God you will gradually began to overcome it. Remember what the Lord said to Moses, “my grace is sufficient for you for my power if perfected in weakness.” If you overcome something in life and you’re boasting about it, then God probably didn’t help you through it. So like Paul, boast about your weaknesses so that God’s power may shine forth and nonbelievers will stand in awe of your God-thus opening a door for Him to begin a work in them.

I think I have a drinking problem

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I think I may have a drinking problem. I’m just confessing it and don’t really plan on doing anything about it. Confession alone feels good for the soul. Actually I don’t really have a drinking problem as I drink just fine.

I confess I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t drink coffee anymore. I have been drinking the sweet elixir of life ever since I was a toddler. Straight out of the bottle.

I may have stunted my growth, but I’m 75” tall. That’s 6’3” for those bad in math and who don’t understand their measurements. Maybe I stunted my growth in other areas that I really can’t put on a blog post.

The best part of waking up is Folgers in your bottle. 😂

You thought I was going to say in your cup? Now that you got that jingle stuck in your head, this is a good time for me to close.

Strength of Character

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We’ve heard the old saying “Survival of the Fittest” and the famous one “God helps those who helps themselves.” Is this Biblical? Who are the fittest and the ones to whom God helps that help themselves?

Mental illness along with illnesses of the body are usually not found in those that consider themselves “strong.” Even the “strongest” person admits they have weaknesses. So why don’t we acknowledge our illnesses, particularly mental, as our weaknesses? We admit our character defects which for the most part include our sins. So why don’t we consider our infirmities as weaknesses? After all when you struggle with something for a long time it can wear down your body’s immune system. This is especially true when as we get older and prolonged years of stress & anxiety “weaken” our immune system and we end up having to take medicine as we get older.

So who are the ones who are the fittest? Some have a strong faith in God and some are strong in and of themselves. However no one is entirely that strong in and of themselves apart from God. Therefore it’s God who gives you the grace to make it through each day. You’re just deluded into thinking you’re such a “good person” in and of yourself.

Years of being grounded in the Word of God can “strengthen” your character as well. As you pray and seek God you can better discern His Will for you life so that you know almost exactly what to pray for. Then you stand on the Word and trust in God’s timing for the answer. God for the most part either says Yes when He grants it to you or wait. He only says no if it goes against His Word. Although all your prayers have their yes in Messiah Yeshua as everything you ultimately seek can be found in Him; security, significance, salvation, purpose,

So to sum it up Survival of the Fittest can best be attributed to Survival of the Faithful. Although no matter how godly or faithful you can get you can always get struck down with cancer, heart disease, mental illness. You will be healed of it even if it kills you; i.e. if God uses it as His means of Grace to call you home.

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