We will always keep our focus on our intent, to the best of our ability, to be in a place where we can connect to God, as He cherishes us.
In the beginning, we learned of how God created a perfect world for living a perfect life. Then, we saw how that was stolen from us by the transgression of Adam and Eve, and how the consequences of that ‘original sin’ was passed down from them, to their firstborn child, Cain.
Next, we examined the nature of the sin, including one facet of it that Cain indulged in – anger.
Today, I would like to look at how these sins, born of lies, may be perpetuated in the 21st century; but first, let us look at the nature of ourselves as God created us:
We were made in the image of God, that is, in the likeness of His Spirit, because Jehovah is a Spirit being (Jn. 4:24). That portion of ourselves is a piece of God’s Spirit, which is our life force – keeping us alive and providing a communication channel between Him and ourselves. Our spirits are housed in flesh.
God also gave us a soul, which is the part of us that thinks – consisting of our mind, will and emotions. The soul is what makes each of us unique. It transcends the brain and body, because we can watch ourselves think.
God tells us that to live a good and happy life, we should let our spirit rule over our soul and body (Gal. 5:16 – 26). Why? Because God always tells the truth (Heb. 6:18).
On the other hand, our body does not think; it only follows its desire to feel good, even if what it would have you do to achieve that might be harmful. Our soul can also be obsessed with deleterious types of pleasure.
So, if the body and soul cannot be trusted, our senses cannot always be trustworthy; and neither can the suggestions of the soul, who interprets what our senses mean, to fulfill its own agenda…
Our Creator placed a physical heart within our bodies – vital to our survival. However, it is just a muscle; it has no spiritual function. Yet God refers to our ‘heart’ repeatedly in His word – to love Him with it, that He examines it to make sure we are on the right path, that He will fill the desires of that heart, and that it reflects our true selves.
What Jehovah is referring to, is our spirit, our True Heart. This is the place we must listen to, protect, and keep sacred.
Adam and Eve did not listen to their True Hearts. They forgot about them, as do almost everyone else throughout the ages…
Yes, we are all born with the stain of Adam’s sin. Yet, God does not hold us accountable for it until we become aware of our malady. Thus, babies and young children are innocents. Moreover, if they grow up in a godly family, there is a good chance that they will seek out the cleansing of Christ at a young age and be rid of it.
Unfortunately, followers of Jesus do not occupy a majority in this world. Most innocent children are subjected to the secular worldly indoctrination, through ‘unconscious parenting,’ by the same deleterious process that was fed to them by their own parents.
We are not born with seeds of doubt or a spirit of rejection, but with a True Heart – created in love, to be love, and to spread love. As small children, we followed our spirit with glee and experienced our world without filters of judgment. But then, something happens…
The parents that are not aware of their own dark rules, handed down to them from their parents, begin brainwashing their children – thinking that they are doing the right thing by making these perfect kids mold to the ways of the world. They hope that they are sparing them from the suffering that they endured as kids.
This is not a malicious process. It is a process of generationally cultivated unconsciousness. The indoctrination begins subtly, without the child perceiving it. The first wave consists of the inculcation of ‘family values,’ based upon the opinions of others – teaching the kids what is good / bad, beautiful / ugly, true / false, and what has value / what does not.
It teaches our children to stop listening to their True Hearts, which is detrimental, because that is where the truth lies:
“I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” Jer. 31:33 NKJV
The parents then add layers of the laws of man upon the children, and they begin to sense a contradiction between the truth in their heart and what they are being forced to conform to. So, they begin to question the value of their own opinions and finally, the value of themselves, and it hurts.
This is the devil’s work in perpetuity: the kids do not believe they are good people (not true), and look to follow other people’s invented rules, hoping that they will be perceived as good and acceptable.
Essentially, they are following bogus dictates, so that they can fix a problem that does not exist – which is unsolvable!
And the unconscious parenting does not stop there. Government and its tentacles (e.g. public schools and the media) take it upon themselves to be the ‘greater parents’, to rob them of free thought, in the pursuit of creating vacuous, mediocre conformity, to perpetuate their over-lording.
If I could talk to every parent, I would stress this point above of all others:
There is not one word that comes from the mouth of a parent that does not burrow its way into the head of their child.
Especially when they hear things such as ‘Why can’t you ever learn?’ ‘What is the matter with you?’ ‘You should know better!’ ‘How could you be so stupid?’ ‘I can’t believe that you’re my child!’
No wonder a child gains a sense that something is wrong with them, if the people they love the most treat them this way. We must be conscious of what we do or say. Our children may forgive, but they do not forget.
Most of this carnage takes place by the age of six…
God commands us to educate our children in godly ways:
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Pr.22:6 ESV
However, we are also commanded to present that education in a godly way:
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to the point of resentment with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or abusive; nor by showing favoritism or indifference to any of them], but bring them up [tenderly with lovingkindness and instruction in the Lord. Eph. 6:4 AMP
Yet, our children are clever. They adapt (in good ways and bad), to get their needs met for having a sense of being loved and accepted. This adaptation is an acquired mental ability to check off a growing list of behaviors that they hope will bring love and acceptance and keep the pain at bay.
This mental construct (ego), is a devil-enhanced voice in one’s head to help(?) them compensate for a lack that never existed. The children, (older now), use it to try to hide their ‘bad parts; by trying to change (‘I’ve got to improve!’) through oppressing their self-concocted delusions (‘I can’t let them see the real me!).
Just like their unconscious parents, they pretend that all is well, not ever talking about how they really feel; and this ego and the fear that it generates, sucks the life out of them. And they all but say goodbye to their true hearts…
We must learn not to be okay with that, to stand in the gap and put an end to this cycle.
The only way that we can bring the light to our children, is to embark upon that same journey ourselves – to regain consciousness by returning to our God-essence. That way we can be a loving, exhorting presence in their lives – impressing upon them that there was never anything wrong with them, that there is nothing wrong with them now, and there will never be anything wrong with them in the future.
This builds their self-respect and helps them see the perfection of God within.
Parents must help them see that everyone makes bad choices and teach them how to minimize that through the word of God, all the while affirming that who they are remains unsullied. Along the same lines, we must teach them that there are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
Finally, and most importantly, help them meet Jesus…
Goodnight and God bless.
LOVE YOU