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Who Creates
Our Awareness?
Hebrews 12:1-29
Faith - cooperation
Fear - compromise
Proper Hatred is our knowledgeable decision against evil and is not the opposite
of Love. The adversary’s influence, using untoward familiar spirit beings, distorts our perceptions to see Love through
Lust, Joy through Fun, Anger through Hatred and Sorrow through Resentment. The emotions of Lust, Resentment, Hatred, and Fun
are none of them feelings – but they augment and attach themselves to our responses in a moment causing confusion and
misdirection. Ambition combines with Fun to create Excitement, Resentment combines with Hatred to create Spite. The opposing motivations are the knowledge of good and evil. Romans 8:1-16
2 Corinthians 10:12 says, But they, measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. The anti-salvation salvation of exclusive self determination,
in the name of God, gives to those who are confused about duty and responsibility an almost all pervading apathy. This apathy
toward the strengths of joy in Christ to intercede for, work with, and fight the good fight for our place of witness with
our ‘other half’ creates a paralyzing hostility against the one to whom we are committed.
The adversary, the enemy of harmony, deceives us into believing
those close to us, those we depend upon for our physical as well as spiritual well being, are inhibiting our successful defenses
of the Gospel. They get convinced that there must be another way or another person that may better understand their own desires
for relief from the troubles of living. When the life of Paul is considered, we can see that the common ideas about personal
happiness, without troubles or hardship because one trusts in God, is a myth perpetuated by greedy, money focused, evangelism.
The most widespread religious scam is perpetuated by people
who try to do things for God by doing things against people who do not conform to their own self-serving opinions about God.
“Faithless” people are not void or lacking in their faith given as the measure of faith God supplies to them.
They are misappropriating their faith by allowing their fears of risk to blind-side natural affections and trust.
Misinformed this way, people who have honestly accepted
their salvation still find it difficult to renounce polarizing their reactionary responses to others and themselves because
the brain's trained reward system is finely tuned to the parasitic feeding process the lure of emotionally established self
confidence (the elation side of the depressive coin) engrains in one’s heart.
However, God is not polarized as people who believe He is the good side of the satanically polarized knowledge
of good and evil they hope in their falsely directed genuine assurance that He is. Many believers are devoted to the fashion
of God, joining hands with worldly wisdom in what personal relationship means to one’s own self-worth, upholding ungodly
parties of emotional pleasures in dancing, festivities, song, and theatrical display.
The Church, as people envision the meaning of Church, has
become an outlet for pent up pressures of living where social agreement about self-esteem becomes an acquired towing of the
line of dogma and doctrine based on the “God experience”. Such conditions do not exist without cause. Through
the unwitting (not always) collaboration by pastoral leadership with diabolic intents of satanic pressures, founded in pride
and egotistical self elaboration, the natural instinctual hungers of survival of the flesh are fed soothing and uplifting
enticements that undermine the purposes for the Gospel.
Spiritual darkness that falls upon nations, churches, marriages,
and individuals is due, not to an arbitrary withdrawal of the succors of divine grace on the part of God, but to neglect or
rejection of divine light on the part of men. Through chasing experiences that give a false sense of purpose in Gospel believing,
people’s hearts become earthly and sensual to where the psycho-emotional practices of the Church in Christ’s Name
becomes a replacement for the natural and properly sensual privacy shared in a marriage between a man and a woman. Thus, these
people are in ignorance concerning God’s care and concerns through Christ - through their belief in accepting their
redeemer, they are rejecting their Redeemer.
Believers have erringly put “darkness for light and
light for darkness” until the light which was in them became darkness; and how great was that darkness! For the same
reasons, the children of Israel bound themselves to die in the wilderness to not participate in God’s promised Promise
Land. By their meddling with their own social engineering pride that they were God’s chosen people, they denied the
spirit of leadership in Moses God desired for them to honor. In their know-it-all self-righteous spirit of protectionism,
they retained a rebellious way against respect for who God placed Moses to be to facilitate their delivery to the life God
prepared for them to live.
As Moses was chosen by God to be the redemptive and prophetic example of Jesus Christ, it was God’s
intention that the people be followers of a guiding authority. Today, as the law is fulfilled in Christ as the Groom to the
Bride, the Church, of His Body of believers, any man married to any woman has their combined representative position in the
Body of Christ to obediently follow Him, with the Victory of His Resurrection, the people of Israel under Moses could only
hope to have possessed.
Most people are as honest as they know how to be…
but, most people do not know how to be very honest. The barrier between usual standards of morality and immorality (not to
be confused with mortality and immortality) is an imaginary fence, or parallel fences with a ‘neutral zone’ between,
that contrasts the opposed differences. There are those who are considered generally good people and those who are thought
to be lawless and corrupt.
We wonder what makes a person cross the fence from “good person” to “bad person”
and get lost trying to figure it out because we judge people according to useful acceptable acts based in varied majority
opinion, and useless unacceptable acts based in varied majority opinion. What is called the grey area between agreed areas
of morality and immorality is made up of paradox and changing situations where one situation may allow what another will not.
Trying to manage all the various degrees of particulars
of every and all patterns of circumstances and situations, combined with the unique differences and level of development of
each person from another, gives rise to general overall standards that must ignore
specific consideration for the “parts that make up the whole”. This does not mean to imply there are no particular
acts of goodness and evil that are other than good or evil, respectively, that do not apply in all circumstances and situations
for everyone at all times. But, even then, what is done to properly deal with the person(s) and consequential results is entirely
another separate matter that may vary depending on who, what, where, when, how, and why.
Entertaining the unrealistic concept of ‘necessary
evil’ presumes an optional righteousness that forms the basis for charitable giving for the wrong reasons. The fence
between morality and immorality, good and evil, is an imaginative manufactured concept that pragmatic reason and logic must
uphold in response to what usually does and does not physically work. On one side of the fence is the idea of good and on
the other side of the fence is the idea of evil. Without understanding the overall purposes for self preservation, desire,
and companionship each person must vie for establishing their own patterns of survival that at once complies with social acceptance
and opposes personal obscurity.
It is an impossible task for an individual or group to acknowledge
all the possible variables while maintaining a sense of stability that adheres to good that will always be good in the face
of evil that will always be evil. The reason for this is found in the basic necessities of everyone’s natural physical
livelihood. Consequently, the unknowable area between the indefinable fences of good and evil is where all reality exists.
People believe that God shares society’s moral standards, but Jesus told the Pharisees in Luke 16:15, what is highly
esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. We find comfort and a sense of belonging by comparing ourselves
to human standards. And, when we consider a world in constant poverty, turmoil, and war, none of us feels too out-of-sorts
with righteousness.
Two people may have conflicting positions each deeming,
necessarily, the other immoral. They may both be right, they may both be wrong, or one or the other may be right while the
other is wrong – they both are decidedly right in defending their belief and decidedly wrong in perpetuating the conflict
by centering on disagreement against compromise instead of resolution without compromise. Knowing who is who in what is what
to whom can only be found outside mankind’s divisive expectations. As a result, most interpretations of Scripture, as
applied to determining choices in acting and reacting to our and other’s purposes, are founded in human traditions and
perceptions with emphasis derived from ways of being in temporal life as the baseline standard for God’s eternal will.
People deceive themselves, with generous help from the adversary,
by making God in their own image. Condemnation against evil to bolster one’s own position of faithful defense falsely
justifies judgment against evildoers with a spirit of righteous indignant pride. Reflecting social morality in the glow of
Biblical Gospel witness offsets the fears of inadequate personal ability to overcome hidden discrepancies. Condemnation of
a soul for works of darkness to achieve capitulation, by the use of fear of God’s power to destroy, is drawn from Old
Testament Law and is contrary to conviction of the heart unto recognition of repentance in Christ’s love through grace
and mercy. Everyone, without exception, is straight laced, conscientious, and wholesome in their heart of hearts because everyone’s
heart of hearts is redeemed in Jesus Christ’s righteousness. God has already forever finished His work but the working
out of His work is being accomplished for eternity as each of us lives out our time.
We often hear extractions from Scripture such as, “unequally yoked”
used to make excuses to follow worldly moral convention, but marriage is a priority of security between a man and woman who
live in ongoing decisions not to be drawn every-which-way by a variety of temptations and tactics. A financial stability litmus
test cannot be used to evaluate the levels of God’s response to personal dedication of faith. Too many people are working
by forcing circumstance, with all their spiteful 'self-protective' might, trying to show God their marriages (and therefore
their lives) are not worth saving. Acts 16:30-31 says, …Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And
they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.
The Devil
The thrill of pride resentful rebellion brings is blind
to the joyful appreciation of obedient respect to chosen authority. Visual orientation of the physical senses is the deception
behind the concept, "Out of site, out of mind." Who is not presently at arm's reach often is perceived as semi-imaginary.
However, there is no distance in the truth of spiritual realities. The knowledge of good and evil is the evaluation of ourselves,
others, and the world around us, to find personal security. This personal security extends ‘naturally’ to our
selfish awareness of others and how they, in unison with us, can create a safe and pleasing society. It possibly would work
if it were not for the enemy’s deceptive cunning and God’s plan for our completeness in Christ.
The false reality of the enemy is a belief that the world
can be a beautiful place at the hands of people - that we can devise tools and ways of being through the rule of law and self-awareness
that will bring peace and goodwill. When we trust in others and ourselves as extensions of the environment, our thinking and
emotions are misaligned and drawing from the wrong source. This wrong source is intelligent and ever more powerful than people
- leaving no one untouched at any time. It is why “good people” can have a dark side that hurts others and themselves.
Thus, the precepts, standards, and principles of Christianity are used and molded to fit the will of man.
For example, the numerical placement of the letters in the
English alphabet were not arranged by God as the language is a derivation and a combination of other earlier languages and
trends of experience. So, the numerical placement of the 26 letters are an intentional, but haphazard, setting by people.
The belief in numerology and its effects is mostly imagined in a way where the pressures of being convinced about symbolic
meaning causes people to act as if there is a kind of power being drawn from the occurrence of numerical meanings behind the
language. The choices made then, sway a person to treat others differently than they really are. That, of course, causes a
cause that would not have been a cause and leads one to think the process is validated by the difference. It is the same with
days on the calendar and times on the clock because the numbering of time and days as we do it is another invention for the
conveniences of people.
Believing in those particulars of non-coincidence as a way
to verify or avoid situations (to take control) without recognizing God's authority to be in command through time and words
beyond our own limits to realize, is a way to avoid accountability in honestly dealing with one's self and others because
the intrigue and significance of the confidence in such matters brings confusion, frustration, and disappointment. Worry,
because of concern for ourselves with others, can easily be transformed by fear into misgivings of suspicion. Example: Though
it may be a truthful statement to inform another we believe they are being foolish, it is a self incriminating untruthful
attack to tell another they are a fool. A grudge is often sparked by an intensified desire for valid recognition regarding
previous neglect.
One of the marks of a thief, and Satan is a thief (a soul
pirate), is to make it appear as if a problematic situation is the victim's fault. Indignation, insecurities, and shame relating
to a matter infiltrates our being in a way where we must deal with overcoming a situation that need not have been. Because
we are responsible in our caring, the hardships thrust upon us cause us to feel we, and/or others, own the purpose of faulty
dealings. The only actual conspiracy is in the unseen realm of spiritual warfare over our place in life.
As we are disoriented into not appreciating God’s
active and benevolent power over our lives, we have the habits of making mountains out of molehills – and molehills
out of mountains. When we are involved in working to overcome a situation that has us uncomfortable, we tend to insinuate
our will of discovery to justify our fault finding by labeling ourselves and others into fixed categories. This seats, instead
of removing, demonic pressures and leads to the idea; "What you don't know, won't hurt you" - the misunderstanding is our
ignoring the influences of darkness while we investigate people to find a handle to focus our decisions.
Role playing an overlord will bring rebellion from the subject
and increase the multitasking manipulator’s tendency to quash the rebellion. Usually, the mountain we are not seeing
is considered a molehill because it is hidden in our perception that a molehill is a mountain. But, we have the power in Christ
to cast any mountain, or molehill, into the sea of darkness where it belongs while freeing people, us and others, from the
influences of evil we have been holding everyone responsible. However, there is a responsibility we and others have fallen
to in accepting the intrusive evil we allow as a way to get our way. The deceptive confusion is centered in indentifying our
self serving desires with our right of existence. Our sense of a prideful right of existence comes from the awareness that
we see and know, but are unable to determine why.
Since we have the God given will and freedom to believe
and follow anyone or anything we wish, including ourselves, the soul is wide open for the enemy to use our will and freedom
to mock God. Our very existence here is for the purpose of overcoming slavery to the world and self, by relying in faith in
the dynamic life of God through us. Our slavery is to our thoughts and emotions as our reactive emotions respond to our thinking
and our reactive thinking, in turn, responds to our emotions in an ongoing loop of past consideration and future fantasy which
rejects the reality of the present by using others. We are in turmoil because we do not know how to stay in the present -
a moment by moment living that requires us to understand God’s purposes in all situations.
We are unable to understand from and of ourselves - separate
from a conscious trust in God - because being aware in a way removed from the Giver of Life is to rely on our own thinking
and emotions ruled by Satan and his hoard of demonic entities. Familiar spirits do not isolate themselves to singular individuals.
We get confused about hatred and evil because we are supposed to hate evil but we identify our hatred for evil with the evil
itself. This gives the tendency to accept the goodness of hatred against evil as part of the evil it is good to hate. Confusing
it more is we hate the knowledge of the good of the knowledge of good and evil because it is enfolded into Christ’s
death along with us.
We hate a part of ourselves because we have been taught
to recognize our shortcomings where we like to be selfish. Then, we have the assumption it is good to teach others to hate
others in order to cause them to see their ‘goodness’ for improvement – or to remove their presence from
our recognition because they call attention to our own convictions. But, the only true goodness is in the Resurrection away
from, and out of, the shifting balances of our self preservation techniques where there is no evil of darkness to offset a
false light of personal knowledge.
The unwavering goodness of our complete being will only
be fulfilled when we are with Christ - giving us the present opportunity to have the humility of the self, with the strength
of the force of anger of God’s righteousness against the evil working its way in those around us. When we are coming
against the evil influencing a person(s) we cannot attack the person in a way that does not respect their position and place
unto us and others. But, when there is deception of the heart, the endeavor to help others help themselves help us to help
them for Christ’s sake usually is rejected as a personal attack. This is where time and silence are often used as weapons
against better ways.
The enemy’s influence is strong and destructive. His
demons are disembodied spirits who are immortal, bound to human mortality through un-natural intrusion, and 'need' a host
to 'survive'. They use our thoughts and emotions, surroundings, and environment to draw us away from trust and faith in God.
It causes the belief that we are desired for who we are when we are fought over, but the fight causes dismay over the conflict.
Misunderstanding chastisement as ridicule we lose our senses of humility and respect for God when our personal wishes bring
angry emotional expectation of self-fulfillment.
When we resent our own mishandling of circumstances, we
tend to blame others for not fulfilling our wants. This is when we resent the grace and mercy God provided through the Cross
and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. So, as demons are fascinated with disharmony because they need to disarray the strength
of peace of people to facilitate their hosting, they play everyone like banjos against each other. Untoward changes in behavior,
as altered through fear, is used to cause intimidation; instead of an honest humility by choice of response to a loving ever-present
Creator.
It is the enemy working through people that causes the harm
and damage. The harmed will almost always blame the violating person(s) for not being strong enough to avoid causing harm.
We consider intent and can find no capacity for it in a person because the capacity of wrong intent is not of the person but
of the dark source working through them - through their thoughts and emotions. The forces of evil are most intense through
one’s with conscience enough to want to trust in God as well as the one’s most separate from God. The enemy’s
reason for this is always to undermine faith and trust through pride.
We use our thoughts and emotions as a foundation for belief
in our rightness and call our rightness as being from God because we cannot comprehend a knowing of good and bad as being
separate from God. When we learn to realize God will give us the understanding and consciousness to use instead, we will find
the thoughts and emotions we have been taught to think of as us, cannot be used to make a perfect world. It would be a world
that was not designed to be for the Glory of God, but of man. Mankind can be the Glory of God in and to the world as a witness
to others to follow the pathway to life, but the life of God as a part of the fulfillment of Christ must by its truth be separate
from the false reality that world knowing brings.
We understand there is no one for which Christ hasn’t
paid a full price. He took on all the consequences of our wrongdoing to give us the opportunity to stand against Satan and
his ways. The adversary knows he and his minions of fallen angels will be judged by us, the members of the body of Christ,
because we are direct witnesses of their evil in our lives. When demonic entities infiltrate our intents and purposes, we
become our own worst enemies as we have become the enemy of God by allowing our authority to be diverted.
To inflict penance for retribution onto others, in the name
of “Tough Love” that derives its energy from the Law of Moses, is to re-punish Christ on the Cross. This is why
pranks, mockery, and harassment are as destructive to the practitioner as they are the victim(s). Hazing others for wrongs,
whether assumed or actual, brings the darkness of the evil recognized into the heart(s) of the self-righteous (and struggling
righteous) indignant through identifying with the problem instead of accepting the solution provided in Christ's resurrection.
We call our knowledge based cleverness 'intelligence' and ridicule differences of ways of living.
We believe we are the master, or god, of our domain while
we identify with assuming God is a God of ridicule against anyone who does not comply with His will - forgetting His mercy,
grace, and compassion. Scoffing is based in the over-protective fear of being ultimately exploited (used) with the recognition
that the exploitation has already occurred in some way, whether we can identify the source or not, so we strike against those
we wish were a better example to uphold our distortions. Chaos addictions can be thwarted by practicing to always laugh with
someone over successes and never against anyone over failures. This way, empathy and concern will replace setting others up
to exploit from their miseries.
The Work of life for each of us is a gift waiting for us
to acknowledge and accept, as we live through each day, moment by moment. We become glad to understand that the evil in others,
the believing into and from self, others, and surroundings, does not belong as part of them. We love their completeness in
Christ whether they are accepting their gift of life or not. We know they are confused and deceived or they wouldn’t
be so with us. We see and realize we are responsible for others, and the wrong they do and cause, because we have accepted
our part in the resurrection of Christ. Our prayer and intercession is in response to the situations and people around us
for God’s sake without a hidden personal gain motive.
As we learn to be conscious of the plight of the fallen
(of which we are, have been, or are in the process of casting aside; a member) our cares and concerns must be taken to and
left with God in faith. When we trust God with the faith He gave us to trust Him with, we can exercise the strength of conviction
our actions need in responding to other's needs, as we encounter difficulties, according to what we have and where we are.
Recognition of personal error, and the harm of consequences our deceptions have caused others, will usually bring the fears
of self effacing worry that we are too evil and destructive to warrant forgiveness. The more we realize damages done the more
our shame and fear seems to bind us from reaching out to the ones we know we should.
The helpless feelings of emotionally negative unworthiness
can blind us to the understanding that our condition is exactly why God sent His Son to die in our behalf. It is true we have
allowed our will of response to evil influences to deceive us into overriding our better judgment. And we do understand there
is no solace of shared condition that others have wronged us and others. But, just as Jesus Christ acquired the victory over
all things is in our behalf, our joy of discovery is the oppressive darkness that drags our being is no longer of us as we
thought it was ours to own.
Living in faith unto God requires us to act and react to
others in situations and times - positive and negative - with kindness, patience, and understanding of who they are ultimately
in Christ, (no matter what they have done or what they do to us) with the priority of respect to our place in and under authority
- the first and foremost being the institution of marriage. The difficulty many of us fear is the misunderstanding others
most often use to condemn us for our wrong as we are being right in being honest for the sake of redemption.
It is a very difficult thing because our pride will want us to
blame others and ourselves, thereby withholding the grace God gave His Son to manifest life through us. He gives to us the
security and boldness in Him to “rat out” to our God given partner the evil done through us in a witness against
our collective fall by the dark messengers. When adverse circumstances are overwhelming beyond seeming endurance, a couple
should always be counseled together, and never separately, by an understanding, adept, prayerful surrogate mediator in the
intercessory ‘role’ of Christ.
Learning coping skills to accept traumas as a part of dealing
with problems is a substitute for reliance in our God given yearning to live in His active leading will. Group therapy where
individuals share like difficulties, as separate from their personal home setting, with
unknown and personally uninvolved others is as destructive to the responsible health of a person’s soul alignment with
God through faith as anything can be. Private personal matters are private personal matters because people are designed to
respect others dealing with their own private personal matters in their own household.
When compromises are made to gossip oneself to strangers
who suffer with similar issues, there is an averaging out into acceptance that problems are as beneficial to living as being
free of those problems. This is reinforced by ideas to own what is wrong in order to realize how wrong it is to oneself and
others – to create enough of a pattern of fear founded aversion to the wrong that recovery has a positive way to go.
But, people experience anxiety and depressions about real issues in real life where real problems need real healing solutions
rather than forming ways to integrate the wrongs socially into subjection to better less wrongs.
Overblown self interest in the place of respect for authorities
under God (even in the name of God) is why proper stable mental and physical functions suffer. Treating maladjustment symptoms
brought about by what is thought to be mental illness embeds, rather than releases, the overwhelming bondage a person may
be under. Confusion is the underlying cause behind most mental disorders and most physical illnesses are brought about by
the same. And, of course, the many forms of addiction (habit) are both mental and physical.
When someone is seen doing what is considered wrong, it
is usually automatically assumed he or she does not know how wrong the wrong is they are doing. Or, if we believe they do
know how wrong what they do is, they either do not care or are so down on their self that the problem is perceived as bigger
than they are. Additionally, because people look for ways to lift their ego, there is often a condemnation of the person(s)
as being inept, stupid, ignorant, lazy, or evil; and certainly hell-bent-ungodly (and, who isn’t?).
We do not know why a particular person does what we believe
is wrong to do. Usually we think a person does not know the underlying reasons they may be wrongfully aggravating our expectations.
Furthermore, we are genuinely puzzled and/or angry to consider that someone would intentionally do what we view as wrong for
a specific reason we may not understand. Complicating this, we consider the costs of what others do and use the general valuations
money, labor, and less fortunate people suffer through as just reasons to step over the lines of propriety and deference for
a man or woman to exercise their own will to live their personal lives, to say and do what their personal convictions allow.
He or she may be seemingly involved in some form of addictive
habit (anything anyone takes a liking to do can be habit forming) we assume could not possibly be intentional for any specific
reason or reasons. The only way to know is to ask... if it is our place to ask. Otherwise, it is not our business to do more
than pray about it, though a man has the duty to ask his wife about any of his concerns about her, and a wife has the same
duty of her husband. Of course, each a man and his wife have their own duty to reply as best they can to sort out any misunderstandings.
This is where modern workplace environments are unnaturally intrusive into personal and private affairs.
With underage children the avenue of disclosure is not mutual
as it is between the parents, as parents are in the responsible position of right to know while a child is in the responsible
position of right to honestly make plain their motives so that his or her parents may lead and guide their upbringing. One
of the reasons underage children do not have rights to their parents privacy in mutual open disclosure of all they are to
one another, as the man and woman share exclusively, is children’s’ natural course in their own lives to make
their maturity an out-of-the-nest respect for his or her parents efforts.
Since mental and physical wellness is misunderstood to be
our goals in achieving victory over discomfort and troubles, we lose that victory by ignoring that mental and physical wellness
are under the direction of who a person is in his or her soul being. Thus, if God is not a living reality but a concept that
people use to feel at ease with the unknowable, then all persons who are personally involved with the subject would need to
endure their own treatment in tandem.
As the soul person is the reason for mental and physical
existence, building structured self esteem to elevate one’s pride in mind and body, in order to counteract a person’s
egotistical compensation for self disgust (either personally made shame over guilt or projected from ill treatment by others
– nearly always a combination of the two) is feeding the animal that will eventually cause deeper and more intense emergence
of the problems when it again gets hungry. Diffusing the negatives across a network of people does not reduce individual intensities
as much as it drags down the overall average of wellness in the population by “spreading the disease” of ‘confidentiality’.
Secrecy disguises itself as privacy
Privacy protects confidential matters between people who
are responsible to one another. Secrecy hides matters from others to whom one is responsible as if they are confidential when
they are not. Secrecy confuses hidden matters with protection to give an impression there is no matter of consequence. Privacy
acknowledges there are personal matters of consequence, in the levels of commitment people’s lives in marriage and family
have, that others not responsible in honoring any particular marriage do not have. A man and woman’s privacy in marriage
is the only social agreement on the face of the earth that any other type and source of agreement cannot legitimately displace.
Everyone has conflicting desires that lead to certain activities
(seemingly inconsequential, and devastatingly consequential, depending in and on ramifications to family, friends, and general
society) they do not want others to know about. The hypocritical nature of emotional confusion is steeped in curiosity combined
with an instinctual yearning for learning, combined with misunderstood hunger and
self-preservation needs. Nobody wants to be “left out” from life (personal private rights and social public rights)
and its meanings and how justified awareness of existence may find validation through personal and group chosen activities.
Secrecy causes a stirring of mixed conflicting emotions;
guilt, fear, shame, self edification… that produce a compensating excitement to offset being outside self-respect and
respect for our accomplices. The more vigorous and intense negatives drive increasing false positives, the deeper blocks of
bondage against simply honestly honoring who we are through trust and faith become. Privacy has, not the opposite from secrecy
but a working awareness in a different realm of understanding, thankful appreciation we are accepted as one with our married
partner no matter situations and circumstances we are involved. This gives the strength of companioning togetherness to apply
thoughtful trust and faith to share all a man and woman are without others manipulating alternative and substitute
alignments.
As any group has particular peer-pressure “the more
the merrier” desires to facilitate ongoing substantiation of interests, personal rights to privacy in reasons for choice
remain ultimately in conflict with group cohesion in shared reason for purpose – unless there is group respect for personal
position(s) within a family. The more intrusive a group (including organized church entities, workplace involvement, and schooling)
is in eliminating individuality, to program individuals into being “one with the unity of the group”, the more
power the group has to oppose opposition to the group through using each of the members’ natural senses of self-preservation
and protection designed to honor God in the privacy of family structures.
Properly, in keeping social turmoil and malcontent to a
minimum, God designed a chasm of difference between secrecy and privacy that is centered in and around the integrity of privacy
as found in trusting our issues of life in Him to those of marriage and family bond. Since the Gospel states this life is
for our purposes in overcoming our fallen state of being deceived away from God’s reasons we exist, it is easily understood
that influences and persuasions undermining our priorities of respect for spouse, children, and extended family, in that order,
are Satan’s primary mode of division. Anti-family disrespect founded in hidden motives is also social disrespect and
turns proper personal privacy into senses of seductive secrecy via inverted attentions - a ‘sense’ to do as one
wishes in a wrong way as opposed to doing as one wishes in a right way.
Every dwelling has a door, and a lock on that door, against
intrusion from the social outside because there are people in communities who do not respect their own lives, and every master
bedroom door should also have a lock (respect for privacy by others if not a physical lock). As a married man and woman grow
into one through faithing day by day their sharing of who they are for God’s sake, children are doing the opposite day
by day in growing away from openness to their parents in family privacy behind the front door, in a gradual separating from
their parents’ unity, into finding a mate with which he or she can grow into the oneness of open togetherness God designed
marriage to represent.
Acquiring what we desire to use for living should not be
to gain peer approval; from the homes we live in, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the activities we engage, and so on…
What we have and do should never consider impressions and perceptions about what others will say or think while appreciating
appreciations from others is accepted as complimentary concern – even if it seems to be critical, derogatory, insulting,
belittling, or offensive. When popular opinion drives our emotional senses of worthiness (acceptance) and/or inadequacy (rejection),
we are giving our faith in God’s will of desire for our own lives and prosperity over to the world’s standards
– as well as transferring faith in our personal commitments of assurance to commonly held assumptions about religious
observances.
Concerning interactive and static media, an online computer
(including cell phones) has the same legal personal privacy status as does a dwelling and the US Mail.
The 8th deadly sin: Loathing
If what you believe about yourself is inaccurate, and what you
believe about others is inaccurate, then what you do to help yourself and others will be ultimately destructive. The entities
of influence of darkness we wish to overcome are feeders on rage against our lives because it seeks undivided attention. Some
people, who are demoniacally traumatized, will let their families and communities be destroyed by working to constantly shift
their attempts to escape their torment by setting up others into diversions of destruction - simply to evade discovery.
We do not need to secretly do anything (…wrong to make it
right…) when we are honest about what we desire to do for the right reasons. What God says about us through Christ is
the only sure solution: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me." This is done
by honoring our positions of commitment to others unto God for His sake and not our own. God is not a magical genie in the
sky. He works His miracles through our hands as we trust in Him through those around us.
When we see what is viewed as unexpected negative results it is
not whether our or an other's faith is lacking. It is the denial of the gift of faith we have because of the fear adverse
circumstances and perspectives tend to bring. Others will block our progress to test our endurance but the building of character
the world deems as improvement is only a hindrance to success. Although the working of virtue through patience and long-suffering
is beneficial, it is not the goal of our walk in response to the gift of Life for Christ's sake. This would mean the evil
had a place in righteousness.
Jewels in a righteous crown are blessings in reward for faithfulness,
they are not provided in response to our endurance through the evil suffering of hardship. Evil suffering is not a strain
of painful load that teaches any sort of faithfulness. When we are caught up in ourselves we tend to require others to be
responsible to our sense of reality. As we understand that God invites us to be caught up in Him for His purposes in the place
we have unto others, we find our responsibilities are unto others for God's sake. Of course, we must keep the priorities of
position to our married partner first, children next, extended family, friends, work associates, etc. respectively.
When others take advantage of our outward interest in their welfare,
the others, being caught up in themselves because they have yet to realize their place unto God through their place unto the
people around them, tend to force us into once again being caught up in ourselves in such a way that the others' responses
cause us to defend who we are in Christ. Our responses to the wisdom of the world within others (because they are not responding
to the wisdom of God) in sharing the understanding of our witness, brings greater opposition by feeding the self protectiveness
of others in defending being caught up in themselves - especially if the others have built a self-serving faith based in the
concepts and attributes of God in defiance to Who He actually is.
But, realizing the virtue of our patience and long-suffering -
the anguished pain of bitterness against the evil we see working in and through others - allows us to know, in their own way,
the others are as concerned about the nature of things as are we. Rejoicing in victory refrains from gloating over an enemy’s
defeat. The reason our compassion is felt so deeply, and our anger over atrocities is so intense, is not based in the insult
against our own life as much as it is in the insult against God's awareness within our hearts. In this regard, it is the same
situation within the deviously demented user who is most caught up in their-self because the inward torment of wrong as right
intensifies the bondage of knowing they are causing harm to others for their own gratification. This causes increased hidden
emotions of inadequacy that overreact to compensate by idolizing others.
Identifying with the fantasy (the inaccurate valuation of another)
causes a realization of projected falsehood. Transferring the embarrassment for having made the mistake that reflects the
original misery that created the overvaluation of the other, the other is blamed for not measuring up to the false and unknown
standard - and a “brush off” of the other as insignificant reinforces our own fantasy of diversion into egotistical
self preservation. As the esteem of another falls to actuality, the errors of judgment find a deeper separation from the sense
of value of purpose in life one is born to realize.
The fears about not knowing, through not knowing, brings about
a reaching out again to the surrounding material world. These persuasions are not humanly natural and they are not created
to be of human nature. When it is understood the confusion (the problem) is not the person, and more precisely not actually
a part of the person except when accepted in belief to be so, the awareness causes a release of the weight of darkness. As
long as anyone takes a breath in this flesh life, there is an awareness of a need for being free from the self bondage that
binds others in an effort to take control over the terror of mortal panic.
Compulsions to hang onto the validated securities of who one is,
according to particular physical attributes and talents, becomes the strength of a person's accepted identity - as long as
the outward behaviors are seemingly acceptable and beneficial to others. As people agree to the things that are not harmful
and against the things that are harmful there is what we know as worldly wisdom, or natural law. In the purest sense, if everyone
were to be "of the persuasions of the surrounding environment" without a spiritual and eternal purpose, there would be a taking
from each other without intent to harm and no harm considered or expected.
Conversely, the Wisdom of God through His mercy of grace to overcome
the evil intrusions that cause people to err in judgment of self over others is of a giving way instead of a natural worldly
intent to take for oneself - though we understand the taking of generosity is an appreciation that overrides the temptations
of personal advantage. It is, of course, contrary to the balance of individualism and autonomy in the concern for others without
a selfish motive and makes it seem to be unproductive in a competition driven society. But, helping each other achieve for
each other contrasted against helping each other achieve for self benefit gets blurred when there is not an internal wisdom
of empathy and compassion shared among everyone involved.
This internal awareness, as developed through interaction with
our spouse (and the subsequent degrees of interaction with others), comes in the moment as we trust that our responses to
others and the world's offerings are led by the present guidance of God. It is, as Paul said, a giving up of oneself as we
encounter the now to accept one's true self in Christ.
John
2:13-17
"All
the difference is in believing you are right about Jesus... and knowing He is right about you."
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