Three truths to know unto believing, unto living:
- Every time we are upset, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.
- When someone hurts us, makes us sore, we are in the wrong, too.
- When someone steps on our toes, seemingly without provocation, invariably we find that we have made a decision based on self that later placed us in a position to be hurt.
I wrote of the above three truths recently...here's the rest of the story as I know it for me: If, when we read "...there is something wrong with us" or "...we are in the wrong, too," we start digging into our personal thinking, feeling, doing, being, we are going down that wrong road again.
The "wrong" we're in is that we are off the spiritual beam. We can only get back on that beam by going to God for God and that is all.
Relying on our reasoning mind to get back on the beam, we stay with our self-determined objective of fixing our self. That way invariably leads to victimhood because we are of two minds: One, we're angry/hurt that we've been wronged, and two, we truly want to figure out how, apparently, God thinks we're in the wrong because we've been wronged.
All we need do to get back on the spiritual beam is to remember to say and to mean, "Thy will, not mine, be done. I'd rather have your will done in my life than my will...always and all ways." We can then understand that the only thing being asked of us is that we give up our desire for self-satisfaction. That is the perfect objective which is of God which I doubt we ever attain...to our own satisfaction.
Thank you.
The "wrong" we're in is that we are off the spiritual beam. We can only get back on that beam by going to God for God and that is all.
Relying on our reasoning mind to get back on the beam, we stay with our self-determined objective of fixing our self. That way invariably leads to victimhood because we are of two minds: One, we're angry/hurt that we've been wronged, and two, we truly want to figure out how, apparently, God thinks we're in the wrong because we've been wronged.
All we need do to get back on the spiritual beam is to remember to say and to mean, "Thy will, not mine, be done. I'd rather have your will done in my life than my will...always and all ways." We can then understand that the only thing being asked of us is that we give up our desire for self-satisfaction. That is the perfect objective which is of God which I doubt we ever attain...to our own satisfaction.
Thank you.
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