I Am What You Say I Am

CHAPTER 1 3 GREAT LAWS My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge - Hosea 4:6 The law of entropy The law of observation The law of the seed I know you didn’t pick up this book to be told about science, so I’ll be gentle – I promise! The Law of Entropy is part of the second law of thermodynamics and it is the measure of disorder (loss of energy) in a system. Essentially, everything loses its energy, breaks down or falls into ruin/ disorder if left to itself. An example is that if you leave your beautifully manicured garden untended for 1 year – it wouldn’t be as pretty on your return. Another example would be if you just made a hot cup of coffee and left it on the table. Returning 10 minutes later, the coffee would be colder than when you left it. This natural loss of heat energy or loss of order in the earlier example is called entropy. Just as gravity is an inescapable companion to our lives, chaos and disorder are woven into the very fabric of our existence. However like gravity, chaos can be overruled. The book of Genesis 1:2 tells us the earth was without form and void – ‘without form’ is the Hebrew word tohuw and its meaning includes “confusion” and “a place of chaos.” Therefore the first thing that God did in creation was to solve chaos. Our lives are no different, we can only change the chaos we’re currently experiencing when we: o Accept that we are in charge – responsibility o Recognise that we have the power of choice and o Choose to enforce and maintain order and harmony in our lives – it is a choice and a continuous action. If it was your hope that life would work out by itself – think again! Just as an aeroplane running out of fuel in mid air will become victimised by gravity, by the same token as sure as night follows day, the moment we stop enforcing order - chaos and disorder finds their way back and we become the victim of our circumstances. As our beliefs affects our actions, and the use of our imagination is an action - our core belief system is the fuel that drives our imagination. For example an individual could be born into poverty, but create and retain an imagination of abundance and eventually gets there. An individual could be born into abundance, but create and retain an imagination of failure and eventually gets there. As the 19th century author Henry David Thoreau famously quoted If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Remember, you decide the direction of your imagination and dreams, so don’t be surprised when you get there! It is the core belief and persuasion of a champion that propelled the imagination of a girl born premature, and with infantile paralysis to become the 100, 200 and 4x100m Relay Olympic Champion 1960 – her name is Wilma Rudolph and you might well ask; whose voice was she listening to? THE ULTIMATE DREAM (IMAGERY AT WORK) Look up to the sky. Can you count the stars? Look down at the sea shore. Can you count the grains of sand there? As innumerable as they are, that will be the amount of children that come from you. (Genesis 22:17 paraphrased) This is what was presented to Abraham by God as a means of visualising and imagining what God was about to do in his life. By day and by night, he had a vivid reminder of God’s covenanted promise to him. No one does imagery like our God! Nothing strengthens faith like vivid imagery. When God gives you dreams or visions, it is a seed for your imagination. Parents tend to have dreams and aspirations for their children and while they mean well, unless they are lead by God can cause various problems. Knowing who you were to be before you were born (Psalm 139:16-17), your maker is no different, God’s dream for you is perfect and flawless. It isn’t small, it isn’t limiting or restrictive. He has abundant plans for a fulfilling and rewarding life if we follow his individualised blueprints. Everything exists because of His dreams, and we are living parts of it. He gives us the opportunity to participate in the ULTIMATE DREAM where everything fits and works together perfectly. His dream for you is so big that it is beyond your expectations!