Good vs. Evil...Overcoming Degradation through the Love and Brilliance of God: Book Two: Seeking to Duplicate the Heart, Courage and Genius of the Lord Jesus Christ
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I've always been interested in understanding the nature of man. Man is by far the most complex creature on planet earth. It is the destructive side of man that needs to be understood. We've been engaging in wars from our earliest written history and we continue to find reasons for fighting in wars today. How can a man be so loving and protective towards his family members, and then become completely turned around in his values in pursuing his career? How can a man from God become cruelly manipulating and deceitful towards the outcome of others, and all for profit? My goal is to bring as much reality in truth to the reader as the reader can bear. I've been a student "seeking to know the truth" for most of my life and I began to write down my findings 25 years ago. I've studied different religions, various philosophies, and numerous psychologies. None of these studies have made me an expert, but they have contributed, well, to my overall experience. And I have seen the reality for needing to know God. This was my conclusion as I learned that the struggles I put myself through were far greater than necessary. I finally turned to God to find peace, and He has provided me with answers to questions which I had not previously thought to ask.
The adventure I've been on has not been all that easy to participate in. I seek to know the truth about myself and others and it has sometimes been difficult. Nobody wants to look upon them self in a bad light, and we fear the idea of bringing on more pain to our body and mind. But if we truly want to become free from the suffering which has resulted from the various losses we've unwittingly participated in, then we've got to be willing to face the truth. This is the work I've been doing for the last 40 years and the things I've come to know and continue to learn are amazing . . . I'm putting together everything I've learned and am learning in Books One, Two, and Three. I believe mankind hasn't been truly free within his spirit since the fall of man. I also believe the material in these books will provide you with a new kind of hope. This will be an adventure, and it will be the road less traveled, but for those who will pursuit, it shall make all the difference in the world.
CHAPTER 1: Love is the Key to the Universe
Twenty years ago or there about I read a book called Love is the Key to the Universe and I was amazed by its contents. I could see the truth with the principles that described love as the key for unlocking the limitations we’ve suffered from not dealing the whole truth about ourselves. And I could see the numerous benefits to be gained as a result of acquiring a key that could provide us with so much more. I could see the truth and the benefits to be gained from being in love but I also recognized my limitations in my capacity to give and receive from love. I discovered the quality of the love that existed in me was laden with conditions, and I knew in that moment I had a problem with the area of love in my life.
The only love I was able to muster forth in the course of my life had always been reserved for the woman I loved and then with smaller increments for my immediate family members. And at that moment I wasn’t sure about the love I felt as really being love or some kind of ideology. I could see my ability to be at love, as it was being described in the book I was reading, was flawed in me. Unfortunately, I did not get the best in education and experience when it came to the giving and receiving from love. My education tended to lean more towards the giving and receiving from pain and fear along with the need to be in control.
For me, the love I held for the woman in my life had more to do with our getting along, and was tied more to the quality of the sexual relations we were experiencing; and these varied on a day by day basis. If we were in a good space and were having great sex then I thought of myself as being greatly in love. On the other hand, if we were not in a good space and were having little or quickie sex, then I would sometimes wonder if I really loved her at all. In the first years of my marriage I unwittingly thought of love and sex as being one and the same.
Even after I attended classes which taught us love and sex were not the same, my attitudes and behavior that would result from them didn’t change. I needed to have sex to feel loved and my compulsion to fantasy about other woman would become more active in me during those times of sexual absence. For me, love, sex and getting along continued to go hand and hand and were dependent, one upon the other, in order for me to experience those so called feelings of love.
Openly loving our children was not easy for me either. I loved my children but not from the fullness of capacity my wife had to give. My dad was not able to openly love me as a child with hugs and admiration and the only physical affection I was able to feel came through a form of hands-on boxing when I was small. He also did not choose to engage with me in meaningful conversation until I was 19 years old, so I didn’t grow up feeling loved through words that might have inspired me. And to make matters even bleaker, there were no endearments from my dad, as he had received no endearments from his dad while he was growing up.
My dad was not generous when it came to giving compliments or encouragement to his children. He was somewhat self-centered and partially burdened with his deeper emotions of vulnerability. He kept many of his emotions buried deeply within him. He did not openly and outwardly love his children and did not appear to be overly bothered or informed about his responsibility in supporting their internal needs. He spent much of his time with his mind being absorbed by a book. He could escape through his reading.
My dad was an extremely competitive person. He was not considered an angry or mean spirited man by his family and friends but was witnessed by his children as quickly turning sour in his demonstrations when things didn’t go his way. Losing at any game he played would send him into bouts of shouting, making accusations, and carrying on (usually in what was meant to be good humor). He had a compulsion to compete and win and this compulsion would always stand in the way of his have a loving and fulfilling relationship with me. I didn’t fully recognize this until the end of his life and it took me about three years after his death before I could let go of the resentments I held towards him in order to truly forgive him for what he was incapable of giving me.
My mother was the one to openly demonstrate love in our household. If there was any love that was going to be expressed it would come from my mom. She would sometimes show me affection by applying gentle caresses to my forehead or by messaging my back. My mom was at her best in showing her children love when it came to taking care of us. I remember my mom taking tremendously good care of me when I had a severe case of mononucleosis at seventeen years of age. She changed my soaked bedding twice a day; bathed me from a pan with a wash cloth twice a day; and brought three meals to my bed side for ten days in a row.
For 10 days I was too sick to wake up and do anything except eat (it was amazing to me that as sick as I was I never lost my appetite). And not once did I ever hear a word of complaint from her. Her constant care for me was about her giving from hands of love. She made a sacrifice to me by giving a commitment of her time and I will always remember her attentions favorably. I felt her actions in those circumstances, clearly demonstrated her love for me.
My mom was as hard a working a person as you will ever find and she was driven to feed her family, clothe us, clean for us, and then would help to provide for our other necessities as well.
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About the Book
Book One may appear to be a little scary to read because it takes you into evil and the destruction of lives. Far too many people won't begin to take a look. What mankind doesn't recognize from afar is that he has been in agreement with many of the lies being perpetuated, through the deceitfulness of evil and his lack a awareness. He managed to get himself in, and now he must fully participate in getting himself out.
The good news is Book Two is providing the help necessary to bring you out. It's giving you the map, and the access to understanding that which will help to set yourself free. You will find you cannot do all of it alone. The life of Jesus Christ is being utilized in Book Two as our ultimate leader, teacher, and guide. You will want to understand the heart, courage and genius which was developed Him from living His life in faith. The attributes of Jesus can and should be studied and duplicated. His teachings are aptly quoted to illustrate various results of life; and provide oppositions of thought to counter the mechanics of evil being levied against us through the minds of the self.
Jesus gave us His teachings, examples and demonstrations over two thousand years ago. Mankind has made progress since then in maintaining his sanity and integrity, but our progress has not proven, to me, to be enough. Look closely at people and their problems and you will see that far too many people are living with way too much pain and fear. And we all hear stories of good religious people who experience a fall as they become subject to sinning. Yes, we are all sinners but much of the sinning we do is because we do not greatly understand! The mechanics of evil and the thousands of approaches Satan has to engage a man, are often overwhelming! I look at our world today and can see the many compulsions at work in the minds of men in mass, and I'm genuinely concerned. Man doesn't begin to understand the size, complexity, and scope of all that he is up against in our world as it is. We've all heard of Satan, and most of us will acknowledge he is there to damage our life, but generally that's as far as our knowledge of him goes. It is our ignorance of him that make us most vulnerable. When we don't recognize the decisions we make are in league with supporting his working mechanics in pain, then we don't have much of a chance. We need to become enlightened in order to be protective of our souls, which is the basis and design of book number three.
Book Two has two agendas which I continue to present throughout. I continue to show the reader the ongoing dilemmas he has to contend with through the cunning and deceit of evil in full cooperation with the six major steps of the longest and greatest lie ever told. Various aspects of the lie are a part of each one of us, and the lies will literally have to be removed. This will take a lot of time and hard work. While you will be steadily at work getting to the truth, I will continue to show the you the things you will need to actively involve yourself in, in order to bring yourself out. There are no easy solutions, and there is little gain to be made without the accommodation of some pain. But the pain will be tolerable and the end will remain as a blessing in your sights! You have the Trinity of God working within you through your deep and deliberate breathing. You have scriptures of truth to be studied at your disposal, and you will have the blessings of your memorized prayer. You have the love, faith and forgiveness of God working within your essence of being. You will be learning to let go and trust in God. The more you learn to love them as the Trinity, the more you will grow in faith. And as Jesus told us, It is from faith, God will make us well.
About the Author
I've always been interested in understanding the nature of man. Man is by far the most complex creature on planet earth. It is the destructive side of man that needs to be understood. We've been engaging in wars from our earliest written history and we continue to find reasons for fighting in wars today. How can a man be so loving and protective towards his family members, and then become completely turned around in his values in pursuing his career? How can a man from God become cruelly manipulating and deceitful towards the outcome of others, and all for profit? My goal is to bring as much reality in truth to the reader as the reader can bear. I've been a student "seeking to know the truth" for most of my life and I began to write down my findings 25 years ago. I've studied different religions, various philosophies, and numerous psychologies. None of these studies have made me an expert, but they have contributed, well, to my overall experience. And I have seen the reality for needing to know God. This was my conclusion as I learned that the struggles I put myself through were far greater than necessary. I finally turned to God to find peace, and He has provided me with answers to questions which I had not previously thought to ask.
The adventure I've been on has not been all that easy to participate in. I seek to know the truth about myself and others and it has sometimes been difficult. Nobody wants to look upon them self in a bad light, and we fear the idea of bringing on more pain to our body and mind. But if we truly want to become free from the suffering which has resulted from the various losses we've unwittingly participated in, then we've got to be willing to face the truth. This is the work I've been doing for the last 40 years and the things I've come to know and continue to learn are amazing . . . I'm putting together everything I've learned and am learning in Books One, Two, and Three. I believe mankind hasn't been truly free within his spirit since the fall of man. I also believe the material in these books will provide you with a new kind of hope. This will be an adventure, and it will be the road less traveled, but for those who will pursuit, it shall make all the difference in the world.