Temporary power is what it’s all about with some. They put their cards on the here and now. For them, there is no “there and then.” If there was, they would have to revamp the entire structure of their lives. Materialism is in essence their religion, their “spirituality.” It is a spirituality of selfishness, of greed, both driven by envy and destined to create more envy… one of the triggers of all the misery in this world.
It seems strange to you that even seemingly intelligent or “enlightened” people should not have grasped such a basic truth about life, should utterly fail to recognize that materialism cannot bring happiness. Of course, their definition of “happiness” greatly varies from your own, and it’s rather the satisfaction derived from an exhibitionistic presentation of themselves, and the temporal satisfaction they derive from the fleeting admiration of others, those brief “Ooohs” and “Aaahs” they get as they show off their goods and all they can afford, howbeit, always failing to “satisfy their customers” fully, because of their own stinginess.
It is an existence of emptiness, camouflaged as sheer abundance, and yet, because most people don’t recognize the deception, that’s what they strive for.
You’ve only relatively recently come to the conclusion that this cannot be at all where it’s at, and to the point where you’ve stopped striving for this kind of a life, or at least hoping for it… So, you cannot really blame those who still haven’t reached that point yet, and would like to keep trying to get there.
What saddens you, is that they already have that “rich mentality” and create the same kind of gap or wall between themselves and people like you as you saw those poor rich people creating between themselves and the rest of the world, so, it’s a good question to ask oneself, where is the point that people start creating or building that kind of walls? What does it take? What is the amount of money, wealth, or knowledge or any kind of prestige, that will get you into thinking you’re better than anyone else?
How easily can pride deceive you?
For some folks it takes very little to get there. That’s why it’s important to watch out that you don’t start building that kind of wall around you that separates you from others.
There’s really no other way than “dying daily” and daily laying down your lives for others by humiliating and humbling yourself below them in approaching them in order to witness to them, to kill your pride… Otherwise, it will only build itself up again. It will create bricks out of anything you will feed it, anything you will allow to stop you from surrendering all to Me and following Me, taking up your cross daily, and denying yourself, losing your life for Me and laying it down daily in order to serve and live for others to bring them life.
It is a good day to die, indeed, to pride and all that causes you to hold back. It’s always a good day to let that old man die that would cling to life, seek to preserve and “save” it, instead of giving it, forsaking it and laying it down for Me.
The only way to tear down those walls is to go out and approach them, lay yourself into their hands, cast yourself into the position where you’re at their mercy, and they will have to make that decision whether they’re going to accept and receive you as My messenger, or not.
Unless you do that, you can’t really say that you’re not guilty of the same building of walls that create separations between you and others.
So, what have you got to lose? What is hindering and stopping you from being perfectly free? What is your pride built of? What’s the crutch that holds it up?
Do you discriminate others because you think they’re so “stupid,” just the way some people discriminate others because they’re “so poor?” In either case, “What hast thou, that thou hast not received?”
It seems strange to you that even seemingly intelligent or “enlightened” people should not have grasped such a basic truth about life, should utterly fail to recognize that materialism cannot bring happiness. Of course, their definition of “happiness” greatly varies from your own, and it’s rather the satisfaction derived from an exhibitionistic presentation of themselves, and the temporal satisfaction they derive from the fleeting admiration of others, those brief “Ooohs” and “Aaahs” they get as they show off their goods and all they can afford, howbeit, always failing to “satisfy their customers” fully, because of their own stinginess.
It is an existence of emptiness, camouflaged as sheer abundance, and yet, because most people don’t recognize the deception, that’s what they strive for.
You’ve only relatively recently come to the conclusion that this cannot be at all where it’s at, and to the point where you’ve stopped striving for this kind of a life, or at least hoping for it… So, you cannot really blame those who still haven’t reached that point yet, and would like to keep trying to get there.
What saddens you, is that they already have that “rich mentality” and create the same kind of gap or wall between themselves and people like you as you saw those poor rich people creating between themselves and the rest of the world, so, it’s a good question to ask oneself, where is the point that people start creating or building that kind of walls? What does it take? What is the amount of money, wealth, or knowledge or any kind of prestige, that will get you into thinking you’re better than anyone else?
How easily can pride deceive you?
For some folks it takes very little to get there. That’s why it’s important to watch out that you don’t start building that kind of wall around you that separates you from others.
There’s really no other way than “dying daily” and daily laying down your lives for others by humiliating and humbling yourself below them in approaching them in order to witness to them, to kill your pride… Otherwise, it will only build itself up again. It will create bricks out of anything you will feed it, anything you will allow to stop you from surrendering all to Me and following Me, taking up your cross daily, and denying yourself, losing your life for Me and laying it down daily in order to serve and live for others to bring them life.
It is a good day to die, indeed, to pride and all that causes you to hold back. It’s always a good day to let that old man die that would cling to life, seek to preserve and “save” it, instead of giving it, forsaking it and laying it down for Me.
The only way to tear down those walls is to go out and approach them, lay yourself into their hands, cast yourself into the position where you’re at their mercy, and they will have to make that decision whether they’re going to accept and receive you as My messenger, or not.
Unless you do that, you can’t really say that you’re not guilty of the same building of walls that create separations between you and others.
So, what have you got to lose? What is hindering and stopping you from being perfectly free? What is your pride built of? What’s the crutch that holds it up?
Do you discriminate others because you think they’re so “stupid,” just the way some people discriminate others because they’re “so poor?” In either case, “What hast thou, that thou hast not received?”
