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Be careful little eyes what you see

While examining life, I have witnessed myself and others point fingers in judgment, as well as blame people when things aren't going well. Even though I still fall prey to the trap at times, a better way has been revealed, veils have been lifted, and I seek to grow in this Truth, as well as reveal it to others to help remove the blinders. It is good to understand and break molds that man has formed in us and I pray this article can help others as well. I'm aware that this topic can come across as judging others. Such a mentality is exactly what this article is speaking upon, so please let us examine such thought processes while reading this. Please let me clarify that I have and still do these things that I'm about to discuss. I admit, I fall short. The purpose and motive of this writing is for growth. To help each other - let us reason together. In my humble opinion, I think this topic sears the conscious and can cause the very thing it speaks of to roar up. Be careful little eyes what you see.

Let us look at a couple of examples pertaining to this topic - Last night, a truck driver said he was waiting to drop off his load at a company's loading dock. He said that another truck driver got into an argument w/ security, and now every thing is halted. 12 truck drivers are backed up. Another example: someone said that when others do stupid things, it causes stress in him. He said the person doing the event is the one who created the stress. Lastly, a great example that all of us hear, almost every day: "He/She makes me so upset.." or " situation stresses me out". We will get back to these examples, let us look at what stress is.

Stress isn't an object that other people have that they throw at us and make it stick. We don't have "stress" buttons that people can push. Is not stress self induced and started by making decisions w/ free will to think the way we do towards a situation?

A friend said to me one day something along the lines of: No one is so in control of the world around them that they never face stressful situations. Ah, but these stressful situations that we speak of, how do they come into existence? How are they created as stressful situations? Don't they only come into existence in our head? I can't see those stressful situations that others experience, can I? If so, where are they? Can I drive some where so that I may go view them?

When these stressful situations arise in my life, I try to turn them upside down, back upright, and say "What is the lesson here?" (reversing what man has taught me to do in the face of them). Then the stressful situation is now a learning situation, growth, and goodness. I'm successful sometimes, and other times I am not by getting sucked into the old way of thinking. Because of the involvement on both sides of the scale, it has been experienced that we can choose how we view the world. We can't choose how a situation plays out (how choices from others are handled), but do not we have a choice in how we think about a situation and others? Do not we have a choice in how we feel about it?

In my experiences, when I point fingers at others and play the blame game, I see that that I'm acting as if I no longer have free will to choose how to feel or how I view a situation. When I do this, I see that self-responsibility has died and for the most part, I turn a blind eye to the truth for the purpose of justifying my twisted view, my emotions, etc. In the end, I am solely responsible for putting myself there - "Oh, but it's far from me to be wrong (pride), so I MUST make an excuse". I must blame something else or someone else.

I find that my thoughts create my reality. If I were in a situation someone calls stressful, I have the potential (not that I would in that situation), but I do have the potential and ability to think healthier thoughts. I do have the free will to choose to look at these scenarios in a different way, different from the scenarios that society, family, friends, etc. taught me that I'm suppose to view that situation. "Heck, everyone around me would get stressed in this situation. It's what people do, guess I"m suppose to as well!" Seeing that I created stress, via my choice to think the things I think, do I not also have the ability to bring upon the opposite in my life – peace – by choosing to set my mind on better things?

Back to our examples - As in the truck driver situation, let's look at these facts: A driver entered an argument. Security was involved. 12 people have to wait. Is this situation stressful to you? It isn't to me. Outside of those involved, who ‘may' be looking at stress, does the stress exist to the rest of the world? Is the situation stressful only when someone says it is, via their own view? In my humble opinion, stress is created and brought to the forefront of life by the person who judges/looks at the situation. Without someone making stress real, the situation is exactly as explained – A man started an argument w/ security and 12 people are waiting. Those 12 people ‘may' be looking at it as stressful, but there very well may be that 1 man amongst the 12 who is saying "Oh well, I needed the rest. I was falling asleep at the wheel." Is the event still a stressful event in this one man's view who is directly involved? I say no, it is not. He's probably napping peacefully in his truck.

Stress is not even in this napping driver's reality unless someone poisons his mind with it, like a fellow driver – Come, justify my stress: "Man, doesn't this suck that we have to wait! I got places to be! These idiots are arguing, causing all this havoc." It will spreads like a disease. Those who didn't have this mindset will now have it because someone spoke it into their minds/thoughts.. into their reality. Are we duped or what?! It's a trap! A vacuum to suck the good life out of us!

Here is a great summary of this. It's from a preface in a book by Franklin Park, The Truth Shall Set You Free -

"Everyone has formed his own philosophy or viewpoint of the values of life, which form the basis of conduct. This concept has been gradually developed as a result of the influences of heredity and environment and the moral choices which have been made. It is a state of mind as to our relative importance in the various relationships of life and is seldom reduced to verbal definition.

It is either according to objective truth and obvious reality, or according to one's subjective desires and choices. One's philosophy and life must agree or life would be too disturbing to the conscience. One or the other must be modified. If one insists upon increasing selfish concentrations, the mind must seek to pervert or distort still further the sense of one's own importance or philosophy of relationships..

Moral beings must always formulate reasons for what they do. An outward act of disobedience is always preceded by a voluntary darkening of the intelligence as to what is acceptable conduct… If we are determined to live unworthily in our moral relations, we must first distort our viewpoint of reality. It is a contest between God's will and our wills.

This means an elevation as to the importance of our will and a blinding of the mind as to the importance of God's will – a reversal of supremacy, "me first". The Apostle Paul was inspired to summarize this tragic revolution in man's relationship to God. Mankind first began to "suppress the truth in unrighteousness" (Rom 1:18). "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever (Rom 1:25)

Old testament passages had previously indicated this revolt against reality, when Satan asserted "I will" five times and worked up his self - deception to the point where he declared himself to be Deity: "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;I will make myself like the Most High" (Is14). He had invented a new way of living by … introducing falsehood into the moral universe, declaring that his happiness was more important than that of his Creator – the "me first" life."

It boils down to this statement: "One's philosophy and life must agree or life would be too disturbing to the conscience." In other words, when we these 2 things - 1: Our outward actions in life (things we do and say) and 2: The words we use to justify why we act the way we act. When compared, these 2 things must be in agreement. As in, if I am blinded to this truth, then I MUST justify my life (hide the truth). I must fight to protect it at all costs, to the point of turning a blind eye to truth. Why? Because if I did not, "life would be too disturbing to the conscious." As I like to put it – The man behind the curtain will be revealed.

When this man behind the curtain was revealed to me, I saw a very wicked thing going on behind the scenes. When this happened, I turned to the way that man taught me to react when a me-first/prideful man is discovered within - Hide it! Purposefully ignore it, get defensive, get on the offensive, and play the game. I like to call it the "wizard of oz game." For example: "Do not look behind the curtain, there is no one there. Do not pay attention to that man behind the curtain." Look over there. Look over here. But whatever you do, do not look behind that curtain. Because if we do look (or someone else sees it), what would happen? "Life would be too disturbing to the conscious". So we purposefully ignore it – "Moral beings must always formulate reasons for what they do. An outward act of disobedience is always preceded by a voluntary darkening of the intelligence as to what is acceptable conduct." Why? So we could seem somewhat sane as we justify our actions and put to death self-responsibility.

On the contrary, those who usually see these things do so because they put to death the pride, thus self-responsibility (humility) is revived. Humility is the key. When we humble ourselves to the point of saying, "Hmm, maybe there's some truth here for me to take a look at". This is when the walls of pride start to shake. If we remain in a mentality such as: "No way, I'm fine. Who are you to tell me! It's far from me to be prideful! You're judging me!", then the specific thing we are speaking about is alive. It is pride protecting pride.

It is interesting to see 2 camps on this topic. One camp is in agreement and another not in agreement. What is the truth? It boils down to the fact that some see it (humble themselves) and the others will fight against it (protect the pride). Again, if it wasn't protected, what happens? Someone's life is turned upside down. All that they said they were was false. All of the finger pointing, blaming, and all of the justification is revealed as being fake. Thus, "I don't agree." - Pride.

These opinions are based off of what I have done in life, what I still do, as well as confirmations by speaking to others. I have deceived myself for many years. Here is the revealing of the man behind this man's curtain: The eyes that are looking at this topic (eyes of self) are the eyes that this topic is referring to, thus I couldn't "see". I was blind - too full of pride to take a look. Fear, pain, pride, ego, self, hurt, etc. were all feeding off of one another to keep the wickedness within hidden. I (the self or flesh), chose to blind myself (soul) to the truth.

I was blessed w/ revealing truth through the eyes of the Spirit when I accepted Christ, and the scales over the eyes were removed. When this truth opened up, we can see how our parents were deceived, their parents were deceived, and their parents were deceived. Remember the lesson in the Garden of Eden? Adam and Eve were walking in truth, Spirit to Spirit with God. They were deceived into doing something that God commanded them to not do. Then, what was their first response afterward? When God asked Adam something like "Why did you eat this?", did Adam respond with truth? Did he say – "Because I disobeyed you. Because with my freewill, I chose my wants and desires first instead of obeying you first?" No, he was involved in the deceptive world and said "The woman made me do it". Huh! Imagine that! Then God turned to Eve and asked something like "What is this you have done?" And what did Eve say? Did she speak truth? Did she say "Sorry, I messed up. I was tempted by Satan and I chose wrong. I chose the self first and disobeyed you. I also caused Adam to fall through my actions." No, she said "The devil made me do it". The finger pointing and the blame game had started and self-responsibility and humility suffered. This gave life to a me-first mentality. It was the tree of knowledge, of good and evil. They realized they did wrong, and wanted to hide it (they sewed fig leaves to cover themselves.. again, hiding).

Let us consider this - If a parent tells a child that they cannot do and then the child disobeys and does it anyways, what happens if the child points to someone else and says "They made me do it" or "Well, so and so does that all the time", or "such and such situation/person is at fault." Does the parent say "Oh, ok, that's understandable" and then walks away? No, of course not. But don't we disobey moral laws, established by God and then we justify our actions like kids? We don't want to look bad, so we blame others or point at something else to hide it.

As adults, we still do the same things we have done as kids. These things didn't vanish from our lives unless something grand happened, like a revelation of Truth in Christ Jesus. As an adult, we can (and most of us do) act out the very same things we say kids should not do. The difference being is that we think we can hide it or that we're better at hiding it because we have no authority figure over us. Thus we'll argue, point fingers, and redirect - play the game. Do kids not obey the correction and move on? They know better than to argue their stance with their parent or to play a game with their parent.

This was important - Without a revelation in life, the things we learned as kids do not just vanish, they stick with us. When this me-first mentality and this blame game remained with me into adulthood, I had no one to answer to - the authority figure is no longer. Now I could fully argue, justify and protect what I did. Why? Again – "One's philosophy and life must agree or life would be too disturbing to the conscience". Pride/me-first is in full force now, no authority figure to stop it. But, do we not still have authority over us, our Creator?

It's a never ending generational cycle that society continues to feed and find new ways of justifying. Now, it's to the point that instead of rectifying correctly, we got a pill for all of the dilemmas we have. When we have stress, depression, anxiety, high blood pressure, headaches or we're just not feeling well in some fashion, we go to the dr. There's a pill for it. Has anyone else noticed that we advance with all things, with the exception of self? Even psychology professionals will agree, that as far as advancing our inner self, we haven't done much advancing. Sure, we have advanced our 'understandings' of some things in the mind, but very little advancement in our self. Just another pill by those that are supposedly there to help. How can we as a people grow in our understanding of the human mind, emotions, etc. and not at least grow towards resolution? Figuring this out within us and examining it seems a lot simpler, cheaper, and worth a lot more than another dr.'s visit and another pill. Man's answer is in a pill. Why is that? Maybe we're fearful of what is found at the controls when we pull back the curtain? Maybe the pride keeps us from looking? "I'm fine! Who are you? You have no authority over me!" Correct, but let us not forget He who Created us.

Someone had to stop this madness, who could? If pride will protect itself, I can't do it myself. I'm deceptive to myself, the world will deceive me, and others will help me justify. No one can help but our Father. God can help the creature and only if the creature asks for it. In my humble opinion, which by the grace of God, I know this is the real reality: There is 1 Pill to be taken as a solution to "see" and "hear" this truth. Through one man, Adam, self-responsibility/humility died and pride was born. Through another, Jesus Christ, self-responsibility/humility are revived and pride dies on the cross. The sin of Adam and Eve started this me-first mentality/pride. Their choice brought upon death to humility and death to taking self-responsibility, and many other righteous things. How can we be revived and flipped around to be righted again? Be born again. I recently saw the movie avatar? A good hidden message in there. I do find something very odd about this movie and that's the fact that many news articles came out about people feeling sad after seeing the movie? Something to make you think... I think it was our souls crying out.

I see a war going on within me and in others through discussing such things. Again though, there are others who do not see this at all and will fight these things. Why? How is this possible? How can some of us see these things and others fight it? Is there not one Truth? Are some of us aliens, of a different race, and some see this happening in their lives, and the non-aliens do not? Or is their deception at hand? There's only one way, one Truth, one Light God's answer to this dilemma, another choice that can be chosen – Christ. Believe in Him and the Holy Spirit will give the eyes to see these things. When this happens, we will see a major war going on behind the scenes. Without Him, we have not and will not advance our souls.

Paul speaks about this. Read very carefully Romans 6, 7 and 8. The entire bible is pretty much about this me-first vs God-first moral dilemma, and God's answer to it - Jesus Christ.

I hate Satan.

In Love,

Joseph

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