Dear friends, do not believe every spirit,
but test the spirits to see whether they are from God,
because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:1 1
"My kingdom" | "this world" |
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I am the Light | I am John Doe, 52 years old, male, 6 feet tall, 190 pounds. I have a BS in this-and-that. |
Happiness Matthew 6:33 4 | Pleasure and pain, attachment to outcome. |
Love 1 John 4:8 5 | A sense of being a separate-self, incomplete, apart from God. |
Knowing the Father, God, the cause of the phenomena of life. John 17:3 6 | Judging by appearances and assumptions, based on past and hearsay. |
Faith: a reliance in the goodness and generosity of creation. Hebrews 11:1 7 1 Corinthian 2:5 8 | A strong personal sense of doer-ship. A narrow outlook based on survival, defending the person we assume to be. |
Nurture, inspiration and guidance from the source of Life. Psalm 1:1-3 9 | At the mercy of other people, outer circumstances and chance. |
Always enough. 2 Corinthians 12:9 10 Luke 12:30 11 | Unconscious lack and restlessness. |
A sound mind. Titus 1:7 12 | Not knowing the nature of our own mind. |
Right identification as the child of God. 1 John 4:7 13 | Being intimidated by thoughts and feelings in "this world", in our person. |
Here and now, life eternal. John 3:16 14 | Avoiding to feel the present moment, a strong habit to escape in an assumed future or past. |
"My grace is sufficient for you." 2 Corinthians 12:9 15 | Blame, shame, guilt, expectations, attachments. |
Peace and confidence. Isaiah 30:15 16 | ...fear or hesitation to admit "I don't know". |
Truth = Consciousness --the canvas of all experience, that which never changes. John 8:32 17 | Whatever comes goes. |
I AM the Light of this world. John 12:46 18 I am with you always, I will never leave you nor forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:8 19 | I AM a mortal body. |
What a treasure the Bible can be when we relate it to our here and now; when it becomes alive and real in this moment.
Sorry, the above table is an oversimplification.
Please help me to see my own blind-spots.
“every spirit” also relates to your own thoughts, beliefs and assumptions! ↩
It is too easy to reject and to close down, but much harder to show and share the Truth.
Don’t miss your opportunity in life; know your Bible, know what the words mean and where they are pointing to…
If we just rattle through scripture we spill the precious milk.
↩How does learning work?
We start with a conceptual understanding, but then go out into the world and make it alive, practical and relevant. ↩