Yes, So Far I Have Understood

“Everyone hears only what he understands.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It may be a higher level, but it is still within its own circle of thought, of time. It may go beyond the village, but there is still the other side of the mountain to climb. It may lead me out of the wilderness, but somehow that wilderness is still part of the garden.

I seek because without God life has little meaning. I seek Him out of sorrow and pain. I seek Him because I want peace. I seek Him because I desire something permanent and changeless. I seek Him because there is death and He is deathless. I seek Him for order, beauty, mercy, goodness and love, but mostly I seek Him for His understanding and wisdom.

Yes, I am beginning to understand…

That I do not wish to deceive myself again; that time and patience may be necessary for achieving my dreams; that I no longer desire to give my time and energy to simply earning a living, to the gathering of useless information, to the fire of belief, to superficial prayers and the worship of religion, to activities of reform, to the pursuit of ideals and virtues, or to any and all activities which give so little in return.

I want to listen to new ideas, to embrace new truths, to never again get entangled in words, to understand My own truth in the morning.

Yes, I am beginning to understand…

But not just the mere description of water which has no relevance to those who thirst. I want to understand the ways of a lovely, curving river which is always nourishing the earth and men. I want to understand my self-center as it moves through the fields of the known. I want to understand the self-forgetful majesty of unspoiled solitude. I want to understand that where heaven meets earth is where divinity meets humanity.

But am I really seeking something or am I seeking to be something? Am I really just waiting for a strong wind to direct me metaphorically from a lower level to a higher position? Or is my hope made up of a multitude of little things put together from roots that are shallow?

Yes, so far I understand…

Whether I have understood or not will show in my daily life.

God’s Will Be Done

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.” J.Krishnamurti

The will of God is seldom done which is why Jesus prayed for the will of God to be done. This is why we are required to participate in our destiny. Even God’s destiny for us is not inevitable it is only possible with our participation.

This is why we must decide. Look at the seasons. Spring is here because winter had a timetable. Seasons come and exit our lives but the order of the seasons were decided by God eons ago.

Seasons are cyclical but as human beings who were created in the image of God, we have the potential to live in perpetual Spring or Summer or Fall or Winter. Why? Because we have the God-given ability to decide our seasons.

Remember this! Decisions decide seasons. Yet we continue to ask God what his will is for our lives.

God’s will for our lives was already decided in our mothers womb. His will for our lives is preordained. Thus anytime a person fails in life it is because they failed to make a decision. Not necessarily the “right decision” because inevitably only God knows if a decision is right or wrong.

Write this down! Not even Jesus was successful in every place. We may have to make a tough decision to put ourselves in a different place, in a different space, in the middle of God’s will.

Remember this! Like the order of the seasons our assignment has been decided by God. Our responsibility is not to decide our assignment but to discover it. Then we make a conscious decision to accept God’s assignment for our lives or reject it.

Knowing if we are aligned with God’s will for our lives requires faith. The Holy Bible teaches us that “Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.” And decisions require faith and faith requires participation of ones will to decide to move forward.

Remember this! God only responds to faith not crisis. If you seek God’s will in a crisis it will not be there. For God doesn’t need a crisis to get our attention but He does require our faith and actions in order to prevent the crisis or to assist those in a crisis.

In Matthew 6:10, Jesus prayed that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This is why in 2010, we must discover our destiny and make a decision to fulfill it.

Hear this! The next 24 months are critical. For our success will be tantamount to our ability to solve a world problem (as it is in heaven). God’s will is seldom done unless we decide to do it!

Living at the speed of sound!

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” Mahatma Gandhi

In the world of physics there is a phenomenon known as acoustic shadows. An acoustic shadow occurs when sound that would normally be heard is blocked. This can happen because the sound is absorbed by some material, or refracted when it meets a warm or rapidly moving layer of air. The refraction cannot only bounce the sound away from a location but it can also direct it to another location where it would not normally carry. In these ways an acoustic shadow is to sound what a mirage is to light.

Now consider this from a spiritual perspective. What happens to words that are spoken in anger? What if the angry words you intended for your enemy bounced to another location and instead fell on the innocent ears of your child? Or what if the negative words you speak about others were refracted and redirected to your body cells? Since sound travels approximately one mile in five seconds how long do you think it would take to break someone’s heart or to scar him or her for life with your words — with the sounds of your personality? The bible teaches us that we hold both ‘life and death in the power of our tongues.’ This is why even today we all carry the wounds of misplaced and misdirected words in our hearts. This is why we all remember the thoughtless words of a parent or the insensitive words of a teacher or the inconsiderate words of a friend or the spiteful words of a spouse like they were spoken only yesterday. If we are ever going to live the life of our dreams then our words will have to correspond to the direction we want to go as opposed to the direction we came from.

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The Alpha and Omega Section

Do you believe words have the power to bless or curse your life?

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