‘We Cannot Live Life by a NO!’

Deut. 32:20 Heb. 10:38–39 Mark 4:40,11:22

We saw in the last post, if God goes, then the basis of our moral universe is gone. the ‘Lie Detector’ has shown that only 3 percent of employees in department stores were honest through character honesty; that only 5 percent of tellers in banks were dependably honest if there were no outer measures for checking fraud. Suppose we double the percentages of the ‘Lie Detector : nevertheless, a nation that is living on this narrow margin of moral reserve is drawing too heavily on its resources, and is nearing moral bankruptcy. Before the war, our crime bill could have paid our national debt in two years. Our moral basis is decaying. We must get God back. What can we do?

I think we will, for the half-gods which have taken the place of God are letting us down. If reason cannot lead us to Him, then disillusionment may drive us to Him, or sorrow may yet ;toss us to ‘His breast’. but is there any hope of a reasonable faith? can we be believers with the consent of our whole beings? including our minds? I think we can because the situation is clearing for the modern man.

Modern man, is beginning to see he cannot live ,as he once thought, on the denial of other people’s faith. the generation of people that lived on denials soon found themselves disillusioned even with their disillusionments.’

“They had three sneers for everything, & 3 cheers for nothing.”

And they soon found they couldn’t live by sneers-to live by sneers is a poor fare. if we should walk to the table everyday & look over the food and turn away in high disdain, we could get away with this disdainful attitude for a while, but only for a little while. In the end hunger would bite us & drive us to affirm something about our food and to act on our affirmations. Both physically & spiritually, we are positive human beings that cannot live on a negation. we cannot live by a ‘NO’; we must live by a ‘YES!’. And that ‘YES’ must be God or it will let us down.

The future of the world is in the hands of the believers, for the non-believer cannot act. they are suffering from the paralysis of the analysis. They can only deny.

O God, I come to Thee for clearer light. The light is dawning — i see that without Thee ,my universe tumbles to pieces. With Thee it makes sense, my sums come out right. Help ,me find Thee- the Key. Amen.

this was a revelation, a real spiritual awakening moment for me- being able to see myself disillusioned in every area in my life.

Enduring Life with no concept that it was meant to be abundant for me, or that there was a God ,that cared for me; I too suffered this disillusionment he writes about.

I sneered at everything, finding fault, ridiculing, shaming, blaming, angry, resentful. in those moments i would feel empowered at the expense of others, but it was always short-lived and over time I became alienated from life by my own actions. It was a sickening soul destroying realization; something needed to be done; I needed a new way of thinking living, a new way of feeling living, a new way of being living.

When first reading this reflection, I sneered at it, feeling threatened by the words seeing right through me, I wanted to run, deny, the truth of what I read. But, this reflection helped me to see i was my worst enemy, and until I invited God into the role of Director & Boss of me, nothing was going to change for the better.

One spark of hope for me as I read these reflections, were how humble his prayers are, they don’t appear to be the righteous, prayers of Preacher, putting lesser souls in their place, but theses words, could be my words, the words of a Lost Soul, a Wounded Warrior Survivor, trying to find his way back into the light.

Each of these prayers convey exactly where I am; when I revert to me in being in control, things going awry once more; and the realization of surrendering to His Direction, things get better, more even, much more peaceful in my mind.