Re: Twisted Family Values

Hi Linda and Everyone,

Thank you for sharing your truth. Yet it is your truth and that does not mean that it is either my truth or God's Truth. In our limited perceptions, we always think we have "the way". In in this thinking of which is nothing more than our listening to the ego, we want to believe we know what is best for another person. You see, if we concentrate enough on what is wrong with "them", we don't have to think about our own stuff. And it really makes it much easier if we have our "holy book" to back us up. Then we can say "It's not me, it's God Who says...". Yet eventually, we must take responsibility for our own thinking. We reach a point in spiritual maturity to where we can no longer pass it off to God or to "satan". There is no "evil force" making us think these things, just simply what we choose to think. It begins with our own mind.

Cult thinking has been on my mind a lot recently, as my pathway has been called a cult. Yet the true cult is whenever someone puts themselves in a place of responsibility for what another should think. I learned much about this from my Baptist and Pentecostal background. And cult's always use fear as there means to their end. "If you leave, this horrible thing will happen! And you will die and go to hell!" "You are being deceived by an evil spirit (of which is only evil because it does not follow our own thought system)!" And of course, it goes on. Yet in God, we are free to let go of all cult thinking. This happens when we allow ourselves to let go of the thinking of the world (including the Christian world) and give our thoughts to God. He has a much greater view of all of this than any of us. He is not a god of fear, but a God of Love, Who is Love, and knows nothing else as there is nothing else. And yes, God never changes. But we sure do seem to keep changing what we think of God and "His Word". We are all still learning. It is when we think we have all of the answers that we get in trouble.

May we today allow our minds to be free and remove the yoke of constant judgement from our own backs. We need not carry them anymore. Let us instead walk together, with wholly empty hands, unto our God.