![]() It is 8:00am and I wanted to upload my blog for January 18, 2024. I usually write my blogs through the week as I am inspired. I save the drafts for upload on the Thursday morning, but today is different, the draft is lost. Sometimes I have a couple of topics ready to go in the draft file, but due to the nature of what is going on this week I felt that it was important to write about the up-coming podcast on Saturday, January 20. OK, so here it goes... And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. The New International Version translates the passage as: And if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your people drive them out?" Matthew 12:27 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" Matthew 7:1 This week I am pod-casting for the first time. I am uncomfortable with the guest, as I am in a different headspace. She is intelligent, joyful, mindful, and appears to comes with a heart driven by the love for people and the creation of life. This being said, after spending over 25 years within Christian circles, my apprehensions of inviting her to podcast with me is causing chaotic confusion. I am hyper sensitive to people's judgement, especially within the dogmatic religious circles. I am also a people pleaser, which in today's culture is seen with distain. In 2018 I read a book about the early Christian church and how Constantine married Polytheism (many gods) and Monotheism (one God) by introducing Jesus to the paganist rituals of the outward temple, the church. It stirred up in my spirit because I knew it was true. I began reading the Bible in a different light once the discovery of the early church rituals in the Christian church settled in my mind, Christians were being scammed, I concluded. Not once since 2018 have a waivered from my love for God, and especially my love for Jesus Christ through whom God was manifested. It has actually done the opposite, as I have a better understanding of God and his love for ALL his creation. It has also made me hyper-aware of the incredible amount of programming that we are under in every arena of living on this planet called earth. "I'm not being programmed!" the dogmatic right argues at this very moment, "I have discernment!". Yes, we have discernment, but does this come from the dogmatic teachings from the paganist pulpit teachings of man's interpretation of inspired words of God, or from the creator of your soul which inspires us to go beyond the teachings or interpretations of man. The pulpit had taught me to judge others as I was programmed that the one true God is only found in Jesus Christ, and anyone claiming that they can heal in any other name is practicing sorcery and/or witchcraft. I am very disturbed about what I just wrote in the last sentence because I was that person before 2018. I am ashamed for my accusations of others in the past, as I was of wrong thinking and had placed myself in a hierarchical position. I walked in the egotistical mindset that I knew best because I walked with the way, the truth, and the light, or so I was taught. When I met Mahalia Michael, I was not sure what to expect. I was having difficulty with finding someone to podcast with in the small village of Kaslo, as people were out of town that day, or were uncomfortable with not knowing or understanding my vision. My vision was and is "Unity in Community", however the vision of where do we start seems a bit cloudy. I met with Mahalia and my new friend Zia early this week and it is unanimous, we need more understanding of each other and need to remove our habitual manner of thinking. We need to be uncomfortable for a moment to find comfort; meaning, we need to stop shutting people out because they said something you don't agree with. You may disagree with someone, but what is in their heart and/or their understanding coming from? We may actually learn something from one another if we listen to the meaning rather than being triggered by certain words, the spells. Zia suggested that we call the podcast "Comfort in Discourse" which we all loved. I played around with the words a bit, and "Finding Comfort in Discomfort" seemed to have me spellbound. The power of words, the spells, is big on everyone's mind these days. Mahalia's heart is to undo the spells that have anyone bound to suffering with 'separation' from the Almighty Creator. Here's the thing, we seem to be looking for the experts to fix our problems, but with so many experts on any given political, social, financial, or spiritual issue it is hard to know who to trust and/or put our faith into. Dare I say trust in the one who created us, and ask through prayer and meditation that our Creator brings us healers. I do not have the gift of healing, I do however know many people that do. I have failed to understand that the gift of healing is just that, a gift. Every culture, creed, nation and tongue has healers. The idea is to HEAL not HINDER. The true healer understands that they have a gift from the Most High our creator, not from a Hippocratic oath created by man. I can learn all the text book studies of the anatomy or psychology of man/woman but without the spiritual gift I will be rendered useless. "forever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 2 Timothy 3:7 We have all been under an incredible amount of programming, but above all things we need to find the spirit within that drives our ambition. Do we want to bring understanding to issues with a heartfelt love for one another, or do we want to make money. I can't seem to break it down much simpler than that. In love, joy, peace, forbearance (patience), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control I write to you. May your week be filled with all the fruits of the spirit. By a vessel, William John
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