Playing god Is a Dangerous Sport

12/2023

Stop the Selfish Crying

...Many of us were raised in households that were not Christlike. But it’s time to recognize that and let Him unravel all that junk.

I train 8-year-olds to stop this selfish crying, but some of you have been trained to cry way into adulthood—cry, cry, cry, cry, cry.

I know there’s a girly kind of cry like somebody just got married, or some sad movie or whatever... but some of you go berserk. It’s a reaction. You use it as a weapon to cry. You have weaponized crying. Grow up.

Did Jesus do that? Did he “whaaaaaaa” and cryyyyyy when He didn’t get His way or He didn’t like something or He just felt sad inside? No, He did not do that. I’m not saying He never cried, but His reasons for crying were nothing like all this selfish nonsense. Cut it out. You’re adults now.

We Can Trigger Our Own Anxiety

Anxiety can be for a lot of different reasons. I know sometimes I wake up and I feel sort of nervous and junky. Loud noises startle me. And I have to be careful at times like that. But we can also create our anxiety. You can trigger your anxiety by letting the wrong thoughts mull around in your brain. You start to feel fear, resentment, jealousy. You let that petty junk in your brain, then you are triggering your own anxiety. It magnifies.

If your voice is at this volume now, and you put a bullhorn in front of it, all of a sudden that same exact voice is 5x louder. Well, that’s what happens when you play around with thoughts and attitudes that trigger the anxiety. The bullhorn turns on and suddenly it becomes almost unstoppable for a while. It can last a very long time...

But the quicker you stop it, the less control it will have over you. We saw that video about Tomorrowland. Which wolf wins? The one you feed. You feed that wolf, then you’re going to get devoured. You have to stop feeding that thing.

There’s No Growth in Mind Blocking

There is another side (and I have known people like this) where they don’t ever want to take anything seriously. They just block it all out because “I don’t want to feel anxiety.” Well, that’s just as destructive because “you shall know the Truth and the Truth will set you Free.” It’s not, “You shall mind block and the mind block shall set you free.” Nor “you shall vent, and the vent shall set you free.” NO, it’s understanding Truth and the Truth shall set you free. It’s seeing through Jesus’ eyes that sets you free. So when you go into this little cotton-candy world of mind blocking “la, la, la, la, la, it’s all good,” then you don’t grow. You die in your mediocrity. You might feel better temporarily, but you never go anywhere.

If you sit in your garage with the garage door closed and the car on, what happens? You die a slow death from carbon monoxide. You just fall asleep. And then you’re dead. Pain-free.

That’s what happened with ____. And someone else who admitted they used to suck their tailpipe was the first to notice it. “Hey, I used to suck my tailpipe, so I know how this is. You just don’t want to feel anything. You’re a lazy foolish little bum, and you’re going to die if you keep sucking that tailpipe.”

So mind-blocking is not the alternative. The alternative is to step back and say, “How does Jesus see this?” Go vertical. Say, “Jesus, I want you to have all of this. I want you to have all of me. Help me to see what things in my past, or fears I have or whatever... help me to see it through Your eyes. Because I know you fear nothing and I know I realistically have nothing to fear either-- “if God be for us who can be against us.” That is a big statement. So I think I would rather find a way to position myself in the shadow of the Almighty and go forward than to either hide in my cave by myself and suck my thumb, or to start lashing out like I need to conquer the world with my anger and hostility… or my cold shoulder or my big mouth or my tears or my anger.

It’s better to focus all my attention on thinking through Jesus’ mind and looking through Jesus’ glasses and seeing myself through Jesus’ mirror instead of my own mirror. It’s dangerous in a way, but the other alternatives don’t go anywhere. With the alternatives, you’ll end up being the same person for years. Decades. And what a miserable existence that would be. So you gotta let Him be boss, with open hands. Being patient. Curbing the anger, curbing the fear, curbing the hiding place for the jealousies and “whaaa, whaaaa”... because all you are doing is feeding that wolf.

You start venting and think you feel better, but you don’t. You never feel better after you let yourself vent. You damage something. And you just have to hope that it’s not irreparable. Because sometimes that mouth starts a forest fire, and you lose something forever. So you need to be very careful to nurture rather than destroy things that need nurturing.

Looking to Nurture Rather Than Punish

**Note: This conversation was about how you respond when you see (or think you see) something “wrong” or “not like Jesus” in adults around you. This particular conversation was not about nurturing children. Of course, there is still some application because our desire is to nurture the children and not “punish them” as we teach them God’s ways in the law of sowing and reaping and discipline unto their training. But again, this was a conversation about adult relationships.

I would suggest that this nurturing rather than destroying (asking questions probably being the correct goal) is true even when somebody else has actually done something terribly wrong.

Most of this stuff that you deal with is not somebody else doing something terribly wrong. It’s just your petty jealousy, fear, insecurity, some level of self-righteousness…but it’s mostly trivial stuff.

But, what if somebody did provably do something terribly wrong? You’re still way better off nurturing because their only hope is to be saved rather than punished. So do care about them, rather than just your own self-righteousness trying to get God to punish them so that they would feel pain for it. If you really care about them, then the object is to save them. You can picture that with Jesus and Mary Magdalene (“I’m free.” “No, you’re not, but you could be.”) That’s the right attitude when someone DOES do something totally wrong--to nurture rather than punish.

So that’s the worst-case scenario… when someone does do something totally wrong. But what you’re dealing with is just all the petty junk and feeling personally jilted or offended and reacting to it by feeding the wrong wolf, and then things get worse and worse and worse. And your body starts to feel anxiety, and that bullhorn starts going off. “My life is just not worth living.”

I’ve got this coffee cup. It’s from a programmer or coder. You’ve probably seen it. But it says, “The program is not working. I don’t know what I’m doing. My career is trash. My life is worthless. Oh, I just missed a comma.” He saw his whole life flash before his eyes, and it was just a missing comma.

Let’s say it’s not a “comma.” Let’s say it’s a hand grenade or a nuclear bomb. You still have to have the poise and maturity and Jesus glasses to be a nurturer to try to save from the war scenario. I mean, who is the best person for you to help save from darkness? The person who is deepest in darkness. The one Satan owns the most is the one I want to try to save. I’m not going to try to save all the marginal people, and then be angry at all the other ones. The ones that satan resents losing the most are the ones he holds the deepest. So what if something terrible really did happen, vs just your emotional reaction to something trivial?

Well, the right position is to leave the 99 and do whatever you can to be a nurturer to help position them to be saved rather than position them to be punished. Retribution is mine saith the Lord, not yours. So your job is to save, not to destroy.

So in all those scenarios whether really really bad or just the trivial “me” stuff, which is almost all of it, in all those scenarios the position is the same—which is to have the poise, kindness and patience and wisdom that asks questions instead of jab and run, or spit and run, or cry and run. That stuff is totally useless. It’s not where Jesus lives. Why bother doing that? If they separated themselves from Jesus somehow, is your job therefore to separate yourself from Jesus getting retribution? How dumb is that? Satan wins twice. Instead of trying to resolve the one, you go isolate your own self from Jesus, because your reaction is so petty and selfish. That’s nuts. Don’t give satan two wins. He doesn’t even deserve any. So I’ll just say maturity is poise, kindness, and patience and is a really important thing to cultivate.

Don’t let yourself run off. Once you get started it’s very hard to turn it around. No petty games, no cold shoulders, no snarky remarks, no evil looks. Instead, look deeper and put on your Jesus glasses and move forward with kindness that is redemptive, rather than retribution and self-pity and all that other junk.

All this is just you, but I think the principle is much more universal than that. _____ used to run to his room and hide any time there was any conflict in his house. That’s how he dealt with a complex situation. Self-preservation. So we’re talking about the same principle that plays itself out in different ways. Is that really what Jesus would do? Run to his room? Lash out? No. So, find the path where Jesus lives. Find that path and live out that path....

And that is not a burden.

That is not a burden. Somebody as recently as this morning said, “It’s such a burden to have to think about being like Jesus.” That is so missing it. This is the greatest opportunity the human race has ever been exposed to--the opportunity to be IN God. Not to be God, but to be hidden in God. There is no greater honor or opportunity. And the universe has never imagined such a possibility. “The angels long to look into these things.” That’s how important this is. That’s how big this is. “Burden”?? That’s so dumb.

It’s freedom and a privilege.

Being correctable is a piece of cake, unless you want to be your own person.

Christianity is not stressful or difficult. What many do, religion, XY, is stressful if they care (and useless social delusion if they don’t care). “My yoke is easy, My burden is light.”

Jesus enjoyed things, but He never sought enjoyment other than looking at His Father. Anything else was a gift.

Z axis, a Zephyr from Heaven

X axis X-ray and dissection

Y axis useless Yuck!

Zephyr means a soft breeze :) filling the lungs, the whisper that’s HIM :) That’s all I want!!!

“We shall have the desire of our heart when our heart finds all its desire in God.” -Charles Spurgeon

“If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that’s your real king.” -Tim Keller

“The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.” -Smith Wigglesworth

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