His Story/our Story: Choice Isn't The Problem

Choice Isn't The Problem

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*Dear reader...

Don’t mind the edifice of what this heart has put together on this page with ink, rather do well to ponder on what this mind is incapable of saying with papers and ink...*

Choice and choice is the problem....

But hold on before you re-echo that statement...

Hearing is as good as doing...

Finding coherence in life does not depend on how much we put forces together to get our desired haven rather, it lies solely in the ability of our choices and how we make use of them judiciously.

Let's assume we all know the date of our death, the time being as clear to us as the sky...the knowing is good, but I'm very sure that the least thing we'd never have imagined to happen, would be what will confront us on that day which may actually lead the death we knew about. The problem won't be that we don't know but the choices placed before us.

Let’s agree on this one, Choice is a problem on its own.

You may be wondering why I said "choice is “a” problem not “the” problem..."

Well, as you can see we all have choices. Some are very difficult and some are very easy to make but most of the time what controls or rules our choice making or the decisions we end up with, primarily lies in the chemical reactions in our emotion which in many time propels us into a state of randomization of having our ways instead of seeing beyond the scope of our “empiricism of materialism”.

To be without emotion [feeling] is to be less than an ant. After all, the instinct in them constrains them from doing some hard stuff which in many ways we can't actually explain except to draw a conclusion that they, the ants, are just a bunch of tiny creatures who follow an inherent law embedded in their genetic codes for their survival on the planet earth.

If we agree with the above point, you should know that there is a problem with us as human.

Our problem didn't begin with the emotion either, it goes something deeper than that. Nothing wrong with emotion but there is a force behind the emotion to either react positively or otherwise.

Emotion isn't the problem…

Let's say we don't know that force for now...and just follow what I'm trying to get at here.

Let it also register deeply in our hearts also that nothing is wrong with the emotion, choice, will, desire, mind, or the body.

Now we may say the problem then is the evil or the devil...

To that I will agree with to some level.

Although we cannot totally write off that old serpent out of the scene. We will do well not to focus on that point because many who have done that, has put themselves in a state of karma where all they are daily preoccupied with are "the witches/wizard" in their village.
Every cockroach, ant, wall-gecko and bad dream are all agents of the devil sent from their foundations to them.

Some have even gone ahead in holding night prayers and ceaseless vigils in the name of killing the rats that are carrying their destiny to holes or to one dead relation eating with them in the dream. It is an endless tunnel.

Here is clarity...

80% of our problem isn't the devil but ourselves, because we are the one calling the shot on every matter concerning our lives.

There is still more.... Let's come to logic and reasons.

This is one field many, so many, believers don't want to try out. They've left it for the Darwin’s (The Atheists) of our days and Hindus. There is nothing wrong with logic and reason.

Meditation and thinking are good things that God has given to every man. In fact, those who ought to use it well are the Children of God but it’s rather unfortunate that as people become Christians, they are taught (not verbally) to throw some good thinking out of the window. They are taught to embrace every word spoken to them by their GO’s in the name of Authority and Submission.

In actual fact, they will swallow every word that comes out of every Jack and Jill rather than taking a painful journey to find out what the truth really is.

It seems to me that, the more knowledgeable people become in religious jargon the less they make use of their brain. They abandon logic, reason, and inquisitiveness in the name of "evil".

You see, defending something that has power to defend itself is a colossal waste of time and energy. Many of our so call “messages or ministries” are all about defending God.

The irony of this is that, people will stop making use of their God-given-brains (mind: reason and logic,), and on the long run would become chaff before those who have deployed themselves in the field of logic and reasons in evil ways.

“We can’t blame God for not understanding His word, His will, and His Kingdom." Neither can we blame the “Man of God” for robbing us, we've simply allowed ourselves to be robbed.

God is the grandmaster of Logic and Reason.

"Come, let's reason together," says God.

“Produce your cause," says the Lord; "bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God,” says Job.

Abraham was a man who came to that point of reasoning with God:
"Will you destroy the city if you find 10 righteous men?"
And remember, God was eager to discuss that issue with Abraham.

Israel means a Prince with [of] God and he didn't get that name without "wrestling".

Moses engaged God with logic and reason. Many a time he would say to Him:

"You are not like the gods of the other nations."

"What do you want people to say?"

"Do you want them to say you couldn't keep your promise?"

Gideon did the same. He would have been seen as a foolish guy in this generation for testing, reasoning and being logical in the way he spoke with that Angel.

Jeremiah accused God of deceiving him: “Lord, you have deceived me...”

And all the other prophets and men of faith did the same.

Now, that's logic and reasoning.

If they had thrown it away, they would have bought into that cliché of “Que sera, sera; what will be, will be."

To shut up reason and logic, and accept every gospel preached at us is to hear our neighbor poisoning us, and say "it doesn't matter". Well, it doesn't but we should be sure of one thing - God cannot be blamed!

Don't forget, the best way to understand anything about God is to deploy “A.S.K”, the acronym for “Ask, Seek, and Knock”.

Logic, reason, meditation aren't the problem.

A man will act based on what he believes.

Our emotional reactions, the choices we make, the way we reason and meditate, and how logical we are solely depend on our belief-systems.

When something is said to us, the first thing such thing check up with is our belief-system, if there are handshakes between what we've heard and what our belief-system is, then action comes in which leads to choice; our actions are accompanied by emotion.

Assuming we're told that wearing Jeans is evil. We’re given reasons or some religious brouhaha based on someone’s experiences or visions of hell. What would follow is that we'll make a choice of not wearing Jeans. (That choice is primarily based on the emotion or feeling of what hell is or looks like), and whenever we don't wear it, we will feel good (which means our emotion is complying with our belief-system) but whenever we wear it, we'll feel bad because it’s a wrong choice based on what our belief system is programmed for.

Thus our emotion and logical ways of acting or reasoning is distorted by such beliefs.

It would not stop there, because there is that tendency of teaching or imposing on other people what our belief-system is built upon thus anyone who does not agree with that is seen as an enemy who will end up in hell.

There goes the trend…

Since we've highlighted the propensities of this problem, let’s try to put them together as one:

Our belief-system is made of what we have been taught, thereby leading us to make certain choices based on the feeling (Emotion) derived from such decisions.

If the belief-system is actually the problem why then do we blame choice? Maybe we think “what we know is the best and the problem is just that we made bad choices.”

Choice is “a” problem….

The belief-system is “the” problem

And to come out of that, we must come back to the place of meditations, reasons and being logical both in reading, hearing and asking questions.

We must engage our minds on a daily basis or else, great shall be our bankruptcy.

"If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man (Old belief-system), which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
And that ye put on the new man(The New Belief-Systems), which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.[After you've done the above] Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil." (Ephesians 4:21-27 KJV)