Everyday we are running around with a pretend face on that blocks us from getting hurt so much because we each are a little damaged. This thing is called ego, and make life much harder to be honest. The ego is what makes your triggers come on, uses time to make you anxious, or gets you to question your value, if what you think ought to happen doesn’t.
Your ego is not really bad at its base point because it is there to help you feel whole; blocking the voids you have with thoughts and techniques to make you feel complete. The thing is that when you become connected to the internal ego, you also have to recognize that this is wrapped with the external personality to let people perceive you as complete. Now, there are people who have completed life transformations, which allows them to have already passed this general point, but I know EVERYONE can relate to it.
What we definitely differ at is how we feel about ourselves when life is high and low. Today, I want to focus on the low. In Job 1:10, you will see the statement “…if we have taken goods of the hand of the Lord, why forsooth suffer we not evils?” and this literally is saying if God is sprinkling blessings on your life, why would you not be expected to suffer at times as well? Now, thinking about it, maybe it is kind of like God gives here, then breaks with you, and does it for another, but on the other hand, maybe it is that God needs you to experience (this) so that you can change, or even better, maybe He doesn’t like to give to ungrateful people.
I do not know God’s direct answer, but what I do want to highlight is how so many of us expect God the fountain, without end, for each and every one of us, that does not want ANYTHING from us. It is true that God does not WANT anything from us, but at times He needs us, and that is when we should be there too! When you are arguing at home, but He asks you to help your friend work their life out, or you are down about yourself, and your friend needs a confidence boost because their self-esteem has been low.
God will ask of us things that will challenge our “life-is-good” mentality just like He challenged Job. Guys, if you are in loss of some sort, a drought in life, I truly encourage you to look at Job. He was a man of God, that God allowed satan to go and torment, for the point of proving how wonderful Job was. I mean what an honor, right? This story is literally showing that if God thinks you are doing good, He is going to put some bad in all those blessings to see if you are grateful, loyal, if you can find a way to know you have everything even if all of your material items are gone, and keep a good attitude during the lows. God wants us to realize that life is not what you see, but what you don’t see.
I actually read a sentence that said, God can do in the supernatural what you couldn’t in the natural, and I could not sit with that statement. To me, it should read, God can do in the metaphysical what you couldn’t in the physical. The reason for the change is because the physical is not natural. The physical realm, the waking realm you live in is not normal to our essence, which is why we have so much anguish and tribulation. If you look at the physical realms and break anything down to atomic matters, you will find energy, and energy is the spiritual realm. We are energy, God is energy, grass blades are energy, we see colors based on these same wave lengths, and if we want to elevate in life, we look to the spiritual realm.
The metaphysical realm is the normal realm, and the physical realm is the “supernatural” (if I were just switching words). For instance, a great line that I like to remember is that if you look at the word impossible, the truth is in the separation…
It is only impossible because you try to be in control with “i’m”, but if you allow God to be in control of the impossible, you will find everything is
Samantha Santiagoimpossible. God is the great I AM, not you, and he doesn’t need to be seen to do works. God makes all possible because He is the perfect all, but your ego/personality wants to be all perfect, and always want to be seen.
So, in remembering where the true, natural state is, you can readjust your thinking, and recognize that life is more than materials, and the best things are the intangibles. You can sit like Job and praise God in a low. You can recognize blessings don’t always rain down, but may just sprinkle. You can look at life knowing that running from helping God can feel good, but “if we have taken goods of the hand of the Lord, why forsooth suffer we not evils” (Job 1:10)?
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