The Rational Rabbit Hole no. 15

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword [of division between belief and unbelief].”

Embrace the Within.

Jean-Baptist Alphonse wrote this phrase in French back in 1849 and how much of the truth is contained in these words, “The more things change, the more things remain the same.” After my return recently to Christianity, I see that even though I have changed in my faith and understanding of God, there are many folks still playing the same games with God and the world of mankind. I see that many are still missing the warning of Christ present in both Matthew and Luke about serving two masters or two gods. If you are unfamiliar with that warning, then here are two translations of those warnings:

“How could you worship two gods at the same time? You will have to hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t worship the true God while enslaved to the god of money”(Matthew 6:24 TPT).

“It is impossible for a person to serve two masters at the same time. You will be forced to love one and reject the other. One master will be despised and the other will have your loyal devotion. Your choice between God and the wealth of this world is no different. You must enthusiastically love one and definitively reject the other”(Luke 16:13 TPT)

And I see that folks are still trying to follow the ways of the world while saying they are following the ways of Christ. That doesn’t work out well in the end for your soul. My time away from Christianity was in my failure to see that the problems I had with Christianity were not problems with the Father, Son, or Spirit, these problems I had were with people getting caught up in things that were not Christian. Now, after my return to the Word, I see that much of those same problems are still evident in folks playing church. Over the past two decades, I see this played out in Catholic churches in the Easter and Christmas Catholics. I see folks online posting scripture and still morally confused. I see folks professing Christianity BUT lacking a love of God which lies at the core of both the Ten Commandments and Christ’s Two Commandments. Without loving God, the path forward is problematic.

In my days away from Christ, I wasn’t the most immoral of beings. I was looking for a set of guidelines that made sense for my life. I found a lot of those moral guidelines in libertarian, stoic, voluntaryist, and anarchist philosophies. BUT those ideas were not the end of my journey as I thought they might be. My journey for truth led me to the Truth. You can live a moral life. You can do good without being a Christian. You can practice the nonaggression principle, you can respect the right of choice, you can live a life where you do not hurt people and do not take their things, BUT that is not enough to make you a Christian. Being moral isn’t enough to make you like Christ.

You can be a good enough person without being a follower of the Almighty. You can do well enough as an atheist or an agnostic to be morally centered and not filled with hypocrisy. Then what’s the point of calling yourself a follower of Christ and not being morally centered and being a hypocrite? I just don’t get it. You can’t serve two gods.

There is no peace within your nephesh when you are playing games with God. There is no peace within your nephesh when you are trying to do right by the kingdom of men and the kingdom of God. The great thing is that you can stop. You get to choose your level of involvement. You get to choose if you are all in for Christ or if you want the approval of the world of mankind. BUT you are not going to get both. Your nephesh, your choice.

Peace to your house. Bless your being. The kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyNepheshMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheWithin