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(Human rights, goals, plans and) dethroning of absolute language
Please note that in the case of expressions of God’s love below ‘me’ could be substituted with ‘us’.
1st April 2008. I had finished writing urgent and important goals/plans in my flat yesterday and later printed them off at my fiancee’s.
They were quite exciting to write, but when they were printed off, with just looking at the page I felt a complete quashing of enthusiasm for them. It was like a dark blanket was over them. The words ’what’s the point’ came into mind as I wrote this. There is no point to having goals and plans. No one supports you in them. No one cares about you. You might as well be dead...No one supports me in my goals and plans...I need support. my goals and plans are not worth supporting...I am not worth supporting. Dad didn’t come and watch me play football with others when I asked him to as a child. Did he say that he was not able to? Dad suffered with depression-suicidal.
Is it true that ‘I am not worth supporting‘?
Jesus Christ died and rose again to restore what of me by God’s creation had been discarded somehow as worthless. My worth is measured by Jesus’ death and resurrection. Therefore I am precious to God!
From my biblical study of ‘planning’ I understand that as long as my goals and plans are good and not evil they are valid in God’s sight. I also found through this study that I need to cling to God, listen to Him, and do what He says. I think that making plans and carrying them out gives a context for God to speak to me/us. LORD what do you say?...Be calm, be peaceful. I am with you...Thanks LORD...I will not let you come to harm...I love you...Thanks LORD...
If all people had this kind of relationship with God it seems to me that there would be for all a kind of paradise on earth. Thanks LORD, I will do all I can to bring your kingdom in.
A human ‘right’, or I think in other words a ‘correct need to be served’ is to be respected for who I am and for what I do. The error would be to make this wholly about me. My reading of this field says that the correct need to be served, needs to be mutual among us. I mean, I also need to respect others for who they are and what they do. Yet these things surely must not be an absolute. The proviso ‘when towards their well being, or better still, for their highest good’ needs to be added in my opinion. But disrespect is not an option. People are made in the likeness of God. Disrespecting them means disrespecting God and His marvellous workmanship and design. It is not necessarily obvious to the naked eye how a persons behaviour relates to their highest good. The widest and deepest context of a person’s life needs to be known to understand the intention behind a person’s behaviour, and this I feel is only available to God the one who is all seeing and all knowing.
But I caution that this is not an absolute either. It’s obvious, for example, that the use of nuclear power can be either for good or evil. Anyone brought up to respect peoples needs and not cause their suffering would know this.
LORD God, please help us serve your needs in one another and not cause unnecessary suffering. Amen.
‘Necessary’ suffering is perhaps alluded to in the paragraph later here headed ‘There are people...’.
The thought that ‘I am not worth supporting’ is refuted in the face of the evidence contrary to this. I thank God that I received support of different kinds from priest, Third Order, St Matthews housing, National Health Service, fiancee, friends, brothers and sister, my children, and most recently the police, to name only a few that came to mind...‘Freely have you received, now freely give‘, comes to mind now.
There are people that have withdrawn their support from me. One was after I withdrew a support from them in a relationship of co-dependency - a relationship that meets false/disordered needs of each partner.
This enabled a suffering in both of us that actually worked for each of our needs for healing as we could no longer depend upon one another to deny real needs to work through/face our feelings related to traumatic life experiences. Suffering is not necessarily unhealthy!
I want to be free of the control exerted sometimes by dark images and negative words that come to mind. I just need to face them and test their validity to put these underfoot. Prayer gives me the power to do this. Kind hearted people have helped too to diminish enslaving thoughts, this sometimes through a roller coaster of feelings, thoughts, reactions and finally to stable well thought out responses.
I don’t want to mislead people by what I share, for example, here. But I sincerely wish and pray that both the learning I share here and what people learn by evaluating what I have shared is useful in some way towards their well being and highest good - their journey of increasing reconciliation with God - Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer. Amen.
If you feel stuck, please ask the LORD to help you move on. My post ’on a journey or stuck’ might give you some useful ideas of what positives to aim for from where you are stuck.
I will feel worthless if what I have shared here misleads anyone in the long run.
If I don’t get what I want by the methods I employ I may realise that I need to seek new methods of being open in my relationship with God and with others as Christ did, and all that this entails or that it is timely-prudent to ‘let go and let God’. I understand that we are to be active in following God’s way shown in Jesus Christ. It seems to me that the passivity of letting go and letting God needs to be employed instead of worrying, trying to work everything out and yet the word ‘passivity’ is not the right word here, as I need to be active in learning the discipline of letting go and letting God, and this is empowered by God. But don’t worry about this, because God meets us at our point of need. God is gentle. We only need to say yes to Him for Him to help us.
I trust you LORD God to remove all influences against me doing what you want me to do or to help me to drop them.
My part is to meditate upon the following and to let myself be guided into doing what God wants me to do.
LORD God, I ask that you lead us into a full reconciliation with you through your Son Jesus Christ. Amen.
LORD God, please guide us to make plans in accord with your will and to put them into action. Amen.
How can I meet people’s needs and prevent unnecessary-unhealthy suffering?...
I want to think positively in accord with God’s will.
I may need to balance my inward convictions of faith and practical need with outward action by gradually increasing my work and service to others in accord with appropriate plans that I have made and will act upon and develop...
Dark blanket removed!!!
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Posted by becomeasalittlechild on 2008-04-01 17:30:00 | Rating: | Views: 88
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