Why does it seem everyone is stressed? Or that depression touches it seems, just about every one's family or many of your friends? Do you know many people that don't feel rushed and dragged through life? Families are falling apart, children are shooting other children in school, and I'm sure you can add many more things to this list.
This is the stunning thing to me, most people just keep doing it all the same way they have been doing it, that has led us to this sad condition.
There is a way out but it first takes a response from us. We must want to know what is causing it all and then we must make a decision to do it differently.
Here is what I can't explain to you: The world domination system. We all must open our eyes to see it. It is all around us. It plays itself out in everything we do. We have to serve something or somebody. Do you know what or who you are serving? Do you want to find out? Do you want to live free of stress, depression, anxiety, the sense of being out of control but thinking you can control all things, including yourself? I believe it is possible to live free of these things. I at least know this much, you can live freer than most of us are at this moment, even when there might be a storm raging all around us. I sense the storm is not going away and you probably know that deep down inside also.
Do we want to continue to live lives dragged around by the system or do we want to live free?
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Hey Kent,
I know you've talked about this before, and every time my mind goes back to the scene in the Matrix where they are describing what the Matrix is and how it makes people a 'copper-top battery'. I work for a very large international bank, and that is exactly how I would describe it. I'm a copper-top battery used to power a machine.
Rick, have you thought much about how to live free of this stuff? I believe it is possible. It has to be.
Most people don't bother to question why they do things the way they do. My life has changed dramatically since I started examining why I behave in a particular way in certain situations, asking God questions instead of demanding answers from Him.
It is possible to live free of this system since I have had a glimpse of that freedom myself, but it's more convenient to take the blue pill and believe whatever we want instead of acquainting ourselves with the truth.
What I've found unusual on this journey that there seems to be a semblance of control in my life, but it's not of my doing but His, His control.
Yeah, I've thought about how to step outside the 'system'. It would take some real planning and determination. I believe it is possible, and I've really been contemplating what it means to be in the world but not of the world, and if that verse is relevant to the discussion.
If I were single (or at-least childless), I could easily envision myself living a life similar to that of the character John in the Jake book. But having a family, I have a harder time envisioning such a life. There has to be a way though. Maybe I'm thinking it's harder than it really is. Maybe I only need to work at a company only as long as father tells me to, and not really serve the system but serve Fathers purposes in that place. Could that be the key to freedom?
Evan, I know you are right. It is possible to live free of it. I heard someone say this before. Instead of heeding Jesus' call to be in the world but not of it. Most of the Church has removed itself from the world and become just like it. Well, with a big dose of Christian lingo added.
I'm seeing that the priciples of the kingdom of heaven are so drastically different. Free of control and manipulation. Loving, living justly and full of mercy. Money and the accumulation of it and material wealth is not the goal. They are actually distractions. People can steal those things, rust and moth can destroy it.
How did I become so distracted? I'm not going to beat myself up over any of it. The enemy is very good at deception and trickery.
The thing I am thankful for is Jesus is so set on keeping us or coming after us if we get caught up in the enemy's schemes. He is exposing the pull and control of the world domination system to me. He is showing me how to live in it but to live free from it's control.
Thanks for the invite on Sunday...
I totally see (mostly) the stench of the world system. It can weigh on a person... but for GOD and the Hope that won't let us drown. Oh God, save us, and also from ourselves.
Also enjoyed reading the lyrics you posted a few blogs down.
Rick, I am married also and I know exactly what you mean. I don't want to go into it openly on the world wide web so I will send you a personal message on the GJ forum. I will try to explain to you some ideas that I am pursuing for myself and my family that will change many things and will be just another step unto more freedom.
I am a little peon and I want to be able to show other people who feel trapped and powerless that they too can find a way out from under it all so they can be free and be agents unto change in their neighborhoods.
Hi Manuela. I had a great time Sunday also. Lets not wait so long for the next one.
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