Practical Application #2: How You Live Your Life
Picture of God #72, Tues 1/23/00
Please, You must read yesterday's meditation for any of this to make sense.The PRACTICAL IDEA for your life I wish to focus on today takes the notion of Self-Control and extends it a bit.
Look, a bit of philosophy, but think about this:
- We are told in the Bible we Live, Move, and EXIST inside of YHWH (Acts 17:28.)
- We know (hopefully by now) that God's Name means I Will Be What I Will to Be.
- 1+2=3; simply put, EVERYTHING we see and experience, existing as it does inside of God, Reflects the truth of I + Will = Being.
That simple, that profound.
That amazing.
And that PRACTICAL.
Look around you. I mean right now, just take a look around. Since you live inside of God, do you have any concept that each and every thing you see is a manifestation or extension of the principal that I + Will = Being?
True.
And practical.
The stapler on my desk is there because I WILL IT TO BE THERE.
The red floppy disk on my desk is there because I WILL IT TO BE THERE.
The cats I live with are present only because I WILL THEM TO BE IN THIS HOUSE.
And it goes further...much further...your wardrobe, book and record collection, cleanliness (or lack thereof) is a TANGIBLE, MATERIALIZED expression of God's Name. And it's so 70's, but that just BLOWS MY MIND!!!!!
I + Will = Being.
"I" means YOU, the inner YOU, the REAL you....thoughts change, memories change, your body changes, yet there is an inner "you" that in Christianity we call the Spirit, which never changes.
Your inner, eternal "I" has Will. I laugh (and cry a little) at the weight loss and smoking support groups and substance abuse groups who advertise...."It's not your fault...It's NOT A MATTER OF WILLPOWER."
Folks, I will tell you one fact.
The ONE and ONLY FORCE you have in life, the SOLITARY ENERGY you have available by which you can accomplish anything, is WILL POWER. Not just what you "want", for Will is much higher than Will...Your eternal self, the Spirit within, has one primary attribute: Will.
The "I" is the "Male-Principle". The "Will" is the "Female-Principle." Together, THEY CREATE YOUR UNIVERSE.
Enough philosophy and background.
Back to reality. Practicality.
Your house is the way it is, your car the way it is, and so forth endlessly, AS A MANIFESTATION OF GOD'S NAME!!!!!!!
All of your surroundings are there because you WILL THEM TO BE THERE. Your "I" has WILLed then to BE there. Big and small.
This even pertains to personal relationships...you keep the people around you which you have WILLED to. (Please, we are illustrating a point here....we are not addressing morality at present, or the need for parents to care for their children, etc...Yes, those matter pertain, but we are trying to stay relatively simple and practical.)
YOUR LIFE IS THE WAY IT IS BECAUSE YOU WILL IT TO BE SO.
And You can change it! (Again, laying aside the morality of children, commitments, etc.....I can't cover every subject every time.) Just as I Will Be manifests itself in the soul as the Fruit of the Spirit, where it is there called Self-Control, it shows itself in your life in granting you the ability to have Control over certain aspects of your little section of the world.
There was a Presidential Inauguration this weekend. Should you have chosen, you could have sat there practically 24 hours a day absorbing and analyzing every tiny nuance....But think......Think about this....You WERE NOT FORCED to turn the radio or TV ON...The fact is, (and this will sound a little "out there" until you think about it for a while) YOU CREATE YOUR WORLD, to a GREATER EXTENT then you probably dream possible.
For me, the morning I created today was petting 2 furry, purring cats, lighting a gorgeous candle that sits next to the programming desk, and celebrating 3 Beethoven Piano Sonatas on the stereo.....THAT was the world I created....I WILLED my world to be this way. I was in a situation (it happens more often for you than you think) to SHAPE AND FORM MY WORLD...Yes, in some objective sense George W. Bush does exist...But it is entirely MY DECISION whether I WILL BE having him or his statements in my life.
I hope I am communicating this concept in a way worthy of it.
In short, there is an EXTERNAL world which, to a greater or lesser extent, our Will can control.
There is an INTERNAL world which, to an absolute degree, our Will does control.
And then, in those cases where we find ourselves in unpleasant times, or any general situation where the force of our will does NOT have the power to change the external environment, then we are back to yesterday's lesson, where we DO control our reactions.
The Name, connecting through Faith, which if we had even a drop would move mountains....As I've said before, it's all connected.
An exercise? Simply find something around you that you wish (and have the moral authority) to change. Change it, and as you do so, meditate of the fact that this is God's Name In Action!!!!!!!!!!
I find this so exciting!!!!!.....But you see, I live alone......and there are so few who understand......So for me, Self-Control means determining that I will not, cannot, let my "aloneness" lead me to "depression."
I must live the realities I speak, or they have no value.
Decisions are an explanation and manifestation of God's Name.
Practical enough for you?
I hope so.
Work on it.
Love & virtual kisses......Ahyh
