I am writing this in January, it’s the start
of the year, and seasonally this time of the year is where things slow, just coming
out of Christmas, and then preparing for Chinese new year. At these slow downs
cash flow is most stretched and the emotions and the mind wonders how this new
year is going to perform. When I have had a great run last year, my mind had defaults
to “Is this year going to be as good? Is the economy going to be tougher, the
lingering issues in life, are they going to explode, or will they stay status quo?
So many a times, I default to the negative, because life in the fallen world is
like this, things can just go wrong, and often times they do, or do they?
A reflection on this shows two main observations.
1) What we focus on becomes big in our eyes,
and
2) our memories are selective.
Trying to take an objective rear view. Life
in the past few years has been great, its greater than the previous few years, and
those years are good! So if one was to do a trajectory, This year is going to
be greater that the previous years combined.
However, our mind defaults to remembering there
were things that is happened that did not go very smoothly, and with our
selective memory, we project those into the future.
It is a flawed and unrealistic projection
at best, but it is evil in disguised. Why are we believing for the worst, when
we should be believing for the best? It is the classic unbelief that the bible
mentions, and it comes from an unrenewed mind. Its like the interaction of Elijah
and jezebel. After a tremendous display of the power of God, where Elijah was
the hero of the story, He got afraid of some teethless threat of Jezebel, he
just burned a wet cow by commanding fire from the sky, so at the very least, he
could have replied, before the end of today, the earth will eat you up alive
Jezebel. An eye for an eye! Who are you to threaten THE man of God!! (not
saying that is the Godly attitude. But if he was to just look at his recent
events, you would think Elijah can responded differently)
The unrenewed mind is an unrenewed mind to
truth. The word of God is truth. We are still on old and bad programing which was
corrupted by Adam’s sin. And we default to the curse of Adam, and not default
to the blessing of Jesus. We do not value or esteem the word of God in the way
that it is worth, and I say this not condemningly, but if we understand the power
and the reality of God’s word. We would spend more time on meditating on it,
and we won’t be struggling with the issues of life in the way that we do. There
is power in the word of God, it is life with a different blueprint, but we do
not take enough time to study it to see how to build life that God has designed
it for us to live. When I say we don’t esteem it like its worth, truly no one
can give it enough time to study it. And ultimately its is not just about
studying the word of God for the blueprint, it is studying the word of God to
find out who God is, and specifically who God is for you. The word of God is
like a ginormous nugget of pure gold, that is seating in our front yard, and we
just think it is just any lump of rock.
“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and
they are life.”
John 6:63
We think God is not actively wanting us
good, we think he is indifferent, distant, but this is all wrong belief. We
have made God to be like an enemy in our own mind. Where in reality he is our loving
father. Jesus’ life and mission was to show us the truth that “GOD IS YOUR
FATHER” and he showed us that when we recognize that, we walk in the reality
that Jesus walks in. because he knows who his father is.
And you,
that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now
hath he reconciled
Col 1:21
We alienated ourselves from God, because we
think God is not for us, we think God doesn’t wants the best for us, the reason
we are experiencing life in a crap way is because we have removed ourselves from
the source OURSELVES! It is all available via the reconciliation that Jesus made,
we can experience life in the same way as pre fall Adam, We can walk in power
and providence like Jesus. God is not the problem as to why we are not walking
in the blessing, we choose the path of poverty and sickness because in our own
mind we alienated ourself from the providence, which tells us, Jesus became
poor so you can be rich, by his stripes you were healed. Embrace God. Jesus has
redeemed us, translated us, the work is finished. Walk like Jesus, not just
Jesus in the carnal, but as he is now, so are we in this world.
2023, This is the year where I esteem the
word of life. I am blessed, I have full health, and am fully healed, I am
prosperous, I am protected, I am saved, I am translated, I am at peace, I have
the power to create wealth, God is for me, he is my father, and he is God. I
speak towards any sickness in my body, and I speak creative ideas, and power to
create wealth, I command those to appear, because God has sanctioned it. It is
this and no other.
