The Cutting Edge

I was reminded today of how extravagant the love of God toward us is.  How all encompassing, how timeless, how complete.  Imagine, every sickness that we could ever suffer….healed; every need that we would ever be faced with…..fulfilled.  And our only responsibility in all of this is to receive…..His love.  

Yet we as a people seem content to continue floundering through life as if we through our actions could effect any of these things.  We seem to think that it is our job to work to achieve what has already been freely given at so great a cost when in actuality all we have to do is learn to receive….His love.

My prayer today is that we as a people receive the love of God.  And be at peace loved ones, God has conquered the world….for us.

I heard a guy speak some years back about following your conscious.  What really stuck out to me was that your conscious, those conclusions that your mind has drawn based on all of the information you’ve supplied it with, are what your subconscious uses to lead you through life.  He went on to break down the difference between a clean conscious that could and should be followed and one that was clouded and not worthy of being followed. It was a tedious undertaking on his part; but the wisdom he shared regarding a clouded conscious bears sharing and since his wisdom has long endured with me, I’d like to the best of my ability to share the highlights with you.

We come into this world being bombarded with information.  And we spend so much of our time watching movies and reading magazines that we fill our minds and our hearts with all kinds of information without censure.  Our mind and our heart has to process all of that information, and believe it or not…it draws conclusions.  In fact, many of the conclusions that your subconscious mind has come to, you don’t even realize.  When you continue to digest negative, false, or derogatory information over and over, it creates a figurative scar in your reasoning because the human heart was not created to digest negativity, lawlessness or out right rebellion.  And if you’re honest you will agree that these are the basic characteristics of this present generation.

There is no way to deposit negativity in and get positivity out.  There is no way for you to practice only rebellion and learn obedience.  There is no way to study lawlessness—and that is what you are doing when you watch movies, read books, or hold conversations that glorify depraved, deviate behavior—and develop a healthy conscious. 

P.S.  Your subconscious makes the majority of your decisions, where is it leading you?

We’ve all been there.  Society has conditioned us to judge each other on the most supeficial of all attributes.  We’ve been brainwashed into thinking that asomehow the way we look physically deteremines wwho we are, or has something to do with our value as humans.  Afterall none of us had any say over how we’d look, what color we’d be or what type of hair we’d have;these factors were all determined for us.  Buying clothes designed to make you look a certain way, or altering your behavior based on who or which group you’re with is an easy decision, but it requires no growth or discipline.  It is usually what we do to make make the statement that I fit too.  But be careful, changing who you are to accommodate others is a dangerous habit to acquire. The thing about “shape shifting” is that acting is a temporary performance with long term, negative effects.  People that live their lives as shape shifteres, learn to be deceitful, insecure and rerely, if ever, reach their full potential.  Conside this; how can you live your life successfully if you’re busy mimicking someone else?

God is not interested in an act, nor is he interested in our outward appearances.  God only looks at the condition of your heart.  Your heart is not an image of who you are—it is literally who you are.  Not contrived, not dressed up—it is the naked truth of who you were created to be, and it is exactly who God is looking for.  What about you.  Guard your heart carefully because what flows from your heart dictates the course of your life.