Death, Fear, Pleasure
God created us with both temporal and eternal components, and death is the point when we got ousted from the temporal self and fully take upon the eternal.
Why do we fear? Consider this: when you fear, your mind generates a prediction of the future. Since that prediction is normally one to dread, it is unpleasurable. To fear is unpleasurable. Nevertheless, we keep fearing because we feel secure in knowing the future. So while harboring fear inflicts so much agony, the tradeoff is a sense of security. I'm having a little fear struggle right now. Leaving Bloomington soon for Longview I am afraid i won't like being away. But all the thought i've put into this decision has involved Godly fear, too. Godly fear is knowing that God has the future in His hands and that He is the master manipulator of all things that are and are to come. In his plan I am secure, and not the plan tailored by my corrupt imagination.
Angela and I talked last night, among other points, about drugs in her school. We who do not have interest in drugs are baffled by those who do. But the presence of that craving in those individuals' minds reveals to us what horrible consequenses the original sin had on man's entire being. In the blink of an eye, mankind turned his pursuit of pleasure from God to himself, and satan was afforded free reign to our mind in providing us the possibilities to find pleasure apart from God. Our temporal nature is pleased, but our eternal is not, hence people become locked into the here and not the hereafter.
When death comes to such a person who lived mindfully of the flesh and to the temporal, he is ushered off into eternal separation from God because he didn't want him in the first life; why would he want Him in the eternal life? Along with the separation from God comes separation from all the pleasures he knew as a human because, after all, they were just distortions of the eternal catering to the distorted craving of the flesh.
God, i need you and seek you. Take away from me fear and desire for earthly pleasure.
($9/hour for part-time work at LeTourneau)
Why do we fear? Consider this: when you fear, your mind generates a prediction of the future. Since that prediction is normally one to dread, it is unpleasurable. To fear is unpleasurable. Nevertheless, we keep fearing because we feel secure in knowing the future. So while harboring fear inflicts so much agony, the tradeoff is a sense of security. I'm having a little fear struggle right now. Leaving Bloomington soon for Longview I am afraid i won't like being away. But all the thought i've put into this decision has involved Godly fear, too. Godly fear is knowing that God has the future in His hands and that He is the master manipulator of all things that are and are to come. In his plan I am secure, and not the plan tailored by my corrupt imagination.
Angela and I talked last night, among other points, about drugs in her school. We who do not have interest in drugs are baffled by those who do. But the presence of that craving in those individuals' minds reveals to us what horrible consequenses the original sin had on man's entire being. In the blink of an eye, mankind turned his pursuit of pleasure from God to himself, and satan was afforded free reign to our mind in providing us the possibilities to find pleasure apart from God. Our temporal nature is pleased, but our eternal is not, hence people become locked into the here and not the hereafter.
When death comes to such a person who lived mindfully of the flesh and to the temporal, he is ushered off into eternal separation from God because he didn't want him in the first life; why would he want Him in the eternal life? Along with the separation from God comes separation from all the pleasures he knew as a human because, after all, they were just distortions of the eternal catering to the distorted craving of the flesh.
God, i need you and seek you. Take away from me fear and desire for earthly pleasure.
($9/hour for part-time work at LeTourneau)
posted by Radar | 8:44 AM
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