spirituality

Are you free?

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The biggest mystery in life is whether or not we have freewill? Most people assume we don’t. Life would often appear to the unenlightened to be predestined. This just means we have no control which means life just happens to us Talk about mental slavery. Your rulers and masters will have a field day with this because they will use it to control you. Until you develop enough spiritual discernment to break free and learn to rule yourself.

In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, self-reliance is really just a God-reliance.

We have freewill but our will is enslaved to our materialistic desires. Even Paul claimed to always do what he didn’t want to do and being unable to do what he wanted.

In the book of Genesis, God told Cain that if he did right God would bless him, but if did wrong then sin would lay in wait, crouching at his door. It was Cain’s choice.

We make our own choices in life, even if our motivations are buried in the subconcious mind.

If we are not free then we are a slave. Paul talks about being a slave to God. This just means a slave to righteousness since that is where righteousness comes from. A slave to doing the right thing, which is basically just trusting God for wisdom to make the best, common sense choice.

Yes, common sense is just intuitive divine wisdom No wonder in a godless world it is declining. You make your own choices and even if it’s the wrong one, if you are putting the Divine will first, then He brings something good out of it.

Becoming a little more open minded thanks to a motel stay

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I know they still place Gideon bibles in motel rooms, but this is a new twist. I was staying at a motel that had a stack of Bhagavad Gitas in the lobby.

My curious nature couldn’t resist picking one up. Plus the Hindus I met are the most humblest people I ever met.

Plus if you really have faith, then you shouldn’t fear anything that opens your mind up a little. Especially if you are confident of what you believe.

Not every Christian who professes to know God actually does. Likewise the church can’t really assume that every non-Christian is lost.

God works in mysterious ways right?

I’ll take it a step further:

What if Krishna is sanskrit for Christ?

The Christ is a title for an annointed person. The angelic being who appeared throughout the Old Testament was a Christ figure. The Christ lived through Jesus (not even his real name) during his short life on earth.

Through the power of the Holy Spirit, anybody who walks in the Light of the Divine for any length of time will inevitably become a Christ figure.

Wanting to be made well

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John 5:6. . .”When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”
Notice Jesus asked the man by the pool if he wanted to get well. The Lord lives to save but only if we realize our need and actually want to be set free and live for Him.

If you’re reading this email and you haven’t found God in your life, do you wish to get well? Have you realized how sick you are? There’s a good physician waiting to heal you if you’re willing to give Him your life. He doesn’t even cost anything. In fact He’ll even pay your bill for you.

As for those that have been “treated” by the good doctor, do you wish to get well? Have you made spiritual growth a commitment or are you stuck in a rut just going through the motions everyday.

Life’s most important relationship is quite an adventure buy you wouldn’t know it by talking to a lot of christians. In fact if every christian actually shared their faith more (I know I need to work on this too), probably at least half the world would be saved.

The wealthy place

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Psalm 66:12. . .”You made men ride over our heads; We went through fire and through water, yet you brought us out into a place of abundance.
Every christian has a God-given dream to pursue in their life. God will only reveal it to you when you surrender your life completely to Him. Because of our human nature God has to take us through many trials before we arrive at the place where we’re totally surrendered to His Will for our lives, but once you get there you receive the vision of what you’re being called to do with your life.

I hear people ask why it seems God’s people seem to have a harder time in life. Because you only come to know God when you diligently seek Him , then He reveals Himself to you through our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, and when you seek God you become a threat to Satan so the evil one does everything he can to take you down before you give your heart to God.

The christian life isn’t easy, but the only way to have true peace in it is to surrender your life to the Lord and let Him live through you. So, one final thought in closing-sometimes you have to be totally bankrupt in life to realize how rich you are. This is especially true if you have true riches-a personal relationship with God through Christ.

Developing your negatives

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I like taking pictures as a hobby on my smartphone. Hopefully I can make a living doing this in the near future. I took photography in high school for a year, and I have to admit the old darkroom style was a lot more challenging than these digital cameras.

One day I got to thinking as I was looking at some negatives of a photograph someone else took. We develop negatives by turning them into colorful photos. It is the same way with life. Rather than focus on the negative aspects of your life, just develop the negatives into something more positive, or colorful.