About our mindsets and how we are so busy trying to fix them...

Humanity has been very busy re-shaping its way of thinking in these modern times;

• Wars to end all wars;
• East versus West;
• Free world against Communism;
• Religious despotism...etc.

And all this time, through all these systems, humanity has been trying to influence our mindsets to think in one way or another...

But what if we've been going about this all wrong?

I mean let us look at this seriously:

Have we become victims of our own arrogance and self-worth?

Think about it:

We have developed sciences that dissect all subjects known to mankind...

Psychology;
Sociology;
Religion;
Anthropology;
Criminology;
Philosophy;
Astrology;
Psychiatry;
History;
Dentistry...etc.

I can go on and on but you get the point...

Humanity is expanding its knowledge at an increasing speed and poised to launch itself to the far corners of the 'knowledge universe...'

All this knowledge is great and fun...

But is it also dangerous?

Why dangerous?

It's all relative, really; we are opening greater avenues of knowledge...it is our nature to evolve...

It's expansion...

And God wants us to expand and develop...he is expecting this...

He also expects that every generation be grateful to Him...

No, God doesn't want you to kiss His ass and play religion with Him...

That's boring to Him...

He wants honest gratitude and a pure heart...wouldn't you?

(Get to talk to God now...the way He wants you to do it...join in...)

AND NOW A SURPRISE JUST FOR YOU:

Let's expose Satan some more...check this out:

"Satan is also expecting and hoping that you will grow and expand..."

He too wants you to progress and be a success...(what the...?)

Surprised?

Well don't be because Satan is waiting on the sidelines to destroy you...

Let's expose Satan a bit here...

To him, your success or failure means one thing: a way for him to cut you off from God...

Face it:

1. if you fail, you become open to destabilization which cuts you off from God;
2. if you succeed, you are open to distraction and destabilization cutting you off from God.

Either way, Satan sets the stage to cut you off from God...

While you are busy building or struggling toward personal glory (or survival), Satan sets the appropriate stage to steer your mindset away from God...

And Satan's playground is so vast! He will use your personal circumstances to veer you off-course...from the smallest situation to the largest...

It 's important to emphasize this because in these last days, plenty of folks out there are not really mindful of God...

They go through the motions of religion (going to church, or the synagogue, the temple, mosque, etc.) and worshipping over and over again...

There is nothing wrong with that, be assured...

We all need a foundation from which we can learn how to worship...but at the same time, we need to express ourselves to God openly, beyond the systems and rituals we have learned...

Those were systems of training...we can't stop there...

A believer must "think out of the box."

Jesus showed us how to do that, showing us how to creatively express our real selves to God in love and sincere gratitude...

Satan however wants us to remain in that system of religion...he knows that a system becomes routine and meaningless eventually, with no heartfelt meaning behind it...

Just going through the motions with no real results...

God wants originality; He understands that ritual is a training ground, even a 'getting-back-to-the-basics' procedure of re-training if you lost your way...that's ok...

But God eventually wants to hear from you, in a sincere and heartfelt way, without the crutches of ritual...

Satan wants you to think that the Lord can't detect your sincere or false intentions...

Now if you are sincere with yourself, you already know that nothing is hidden from God...He can see it all, including your intentions...including if you are trying to fool him by playing religion by simply showing up at church (yet the rest of the week you have no thought of Him).

Let's expose Satan a little more: he wants you to think that staying in contact with God has to be complicated and time-consuming...in the end you fall into that conviction and end up not even giving a thought to God at all during the week...

Jesus demonstrated that God only wants a simple and heartfelt consideration...tuning-in to God is as simple a matter of being aware of Him, and then doing good deeds as a demonstration of your faith in Him...

The rest he takes care of for you...blessings and favor will follow...

Increase and prosperity of equal measure will come...

So you need to be aware that staying in-touch with God requires freedom and creativity to be practiced...not to be bogged down by rituals and systems that are only good for training and restructuring in case you fell away...

Staying in a system can actually fall into Satan's advantage against you...

(GM Evagrius)

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