Why on earth do people keep asking for something they already have?
Your child needs clothes so you supply them but they keep asking you to buy them clothes. How silly when they already have them. You have told them their wardrobe is full. All they have to do is open the door and get out something beautiful.
Your child begs you for food when you have shown them the door to the pantry full of delicious food. Instead of opening the door and helping themselves they whinge to you all the time asking for you to deliver the food into their mouths.
Why can't they just go to the cupboard and get out as much as they want and eat it all?
This earth is supplied with everything we need. We have clothing, shelter, Food, Life in every aspect of it. We have a brain to think, a heart to love and we have eyes to see.
Man is the child asking the Parent to everything. God is the Parent who has already supplied it all.
Jesus the high spirit clothed in flesh was the teacher meant to explain this so man could have confidence that all was supplied and in faith, accept it.
Because man has become so wrapped up in ego. (his own delusions of power) He forgets that the cupboards were full. He keeps searching for what he wants and asking for it to be supplied. God keeps saying just go to the cupboard it's already full. But with no faith and trust left, ego filled man continues to run around in circles searching for what he needs.
Life is so very simple with faith and trust no matter who you have faith in or trust in.
When you doubt you create a multitude of useless worries and trials that make living a chore instead of a pleasure.
Have faith people. Have trust and change your life for the better.
I got to thinking this morning about the messages I keep helping my counselling clients with. People who claim to be Christians and spend all their time asking Jesus to help them or asking God to do things for them. These are thoughts I have.
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I dono, I don't think you can say that all humans ask for stuff tehy already have access to. Yoru exmple about teh child who won't get food by themself for instance, well some kids might be that way, but I know of a lot of children who just go help themselves to whatever they want. It depends on how self suficient a person is. I know I don't spend my time asking God for much, I spend most of my conversation time with God thanking him for all he has given me. More people shoudl try that, talk to God three or four tiems a day thanking him for nice weather or for the food tehy eat of for taking care of things. You'd be amazed at how much better you feel, how blessed you feel when you do this. But taht is just me. Maybe I am just the acception to the rule. Who knows.
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This is a metaphoric peice. The children are mankind the food is the food in the brain, our THOUGHTS. You are absolutely right in thanking instead of asking in prayer. You have a wonderful outlook and I admire you for how you are.
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I empathise with your feelings, Janice.
We are all weak in many ways. I am fortunate in that I have little, but do not want...but I understand some people that do, when we are confronted by material needs each day in advertising, the competition of people up the road, and television which promotes a lot of desire. All our lives we are conditioned to WANT MORE in this capitalistic society we created.
Fortunate are the people who have belief in God. However, faith is not easy and it does mean spiritual belief without proof, which seems to be against our modern, every day teachings.
I think we need to pray that some people will be less demading and more content with what God supplies, but that is a pipe dream, because temptation is a part of belief and will always be there.
So I try not to be hasty to judge, but hope what you seem to see as important, becomes the same for us all.
From a language use point of view, I find your article interesting. You use the pronoun 'we' when you speak of good and use 'you' when you speak of bad. I would consider changing the last 4 sentences to a more personal viewpoint and use 'we,' sounding more inclusive rather than the possibilty of appearing didactic. 'Let us have faith. We can trust and change our lives for the better.'
As a male, I notice the use of HE and no mention of SHE. Ha! I am being stupidly 'modern' pedantic to say this.
Thank you for this writing, which I am sure will help a lot of people think about your message. I find it very stimulating and helful to clear up some of my own thoughts. God be with you. -
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Thank you for your wonderful comment. hehehehe The HE I refer to is not gender related it is collective of MAN..the species, everybody, all of us. As for we and you, Yes I agree.
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Hey Janice, I'm back
Now for the story...
There once was a small town that was built just below a dam. During an extended rainy season the dam began to collapse and the town was evacuated. But their was an elderly couple who refused to evacuate, saying that God would save them! Just before the dam broke a policeman in a patrol car pleaded with them to get in the car before the dam broke. The elderly couple said no thank you "God would save them" The dam broke, the water level rose top the second floor of their two story home. A policeman in a motor boat pleaded with them to get in the boat before they drowned. The elderly couple said no thank you "God would save them" The water continued to rise and the elderly couple found themselves on the roof of their home. A police helicopter flew over to them and pleaded for them to get in the helicopter. The elderly couple said no thank you. " God would save them" Well the elderly coouple drowned. When they got to heaven they asked God whe he had forsaken them?
God had a good laugh and then answered them.
I sent you a car, a boat and a helicopter!
You just wern't listening!!!
God will give us the boat...
But we still have to climb in and row it!!!
Supoport groups are not here to wipe and polish your asses
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This is excellent. It shows the lack ofgenuine understanding poeple have. I'm so glad you put this in here and I hope people read it.
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Mankind's delusions of power is a big generalization Janice. Though i can understand your frustration with some of the things some of us do and whine about, thank God we are not all like that.
Lets face it, falling from a powerful survival point is hard and scary.
Crying to God for help can be easily understood when you are a mom with two children and only enough milk to feed one.. A reality in many of our third world countries. Or a child with a cruel and abusive parent who has no place to go and nowhere but heaven to turn to.
I fell from power once..smashed hand..lost job..car broke down..no family to turn to, three kids and a wife to care for. Forced to leave so she could collect welfare and the kids survive. Slept on streets, stole food to eat.. Thanks to a stranger who gave me a place to stay close to a bus stop. I was able to quickly get back on my feet, rejoin my family and get us off the dole... Did i pray and ask God for help during that time? You betcha. And I think he answered.
If you asked God for courage, i wonder Jan. Would he give you courage or an opportunity to become courageous?
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God will give you courage and support. He will be there to listen and bail you out if it is for your personal spiritual gain. God is always there for us. But imagine if we actually had grown up being so full of trust and faith, to get it right from the begining. What a much better life it would have been. All the things we have destroyed would still be there naturally for us and we wouldn't have violence and cluelty etc etc. We, as man, have created all that ourselves. Most of us victims of the generations before us, that started this decline. We can change it though if we start seeing how much we are actually capable of. Most of us do NOT know how powerful we actually are.
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Hey Janice,
I have to go to an AA Meeting right now, but when I get back, I have a story or shold I say parable I'd like to tell you -
I actually have quite a few to say about this. Blinded by ego is one thing, lost in their delusion and yet not lost at all. It's like seeing the food and saying that it's not good enough. Greed, blinded by greed dear.
Eyes to see, well they tend to be one of the worst things for those with superficial viewpoints. Don't me wrong, this isn't the blind guy labeling the sighted people as bad, but I don't think there's any denying that people make superficial judgements. So ironically, the sighted become blind and yet the blind become sighted. Funny how that works, and I'm the one labeled as disabled because I don't fit their delusional and theoretically impossible characteristics.
Another great point. I have a better question than the one you posed in the beginning. Why do people ask for help they don't want.
I know you tend to not be as cynical as I can be on occasions, but I'm sure that somewhere throughout your counselling career you feel as though you've had your time wasted. Little Jane Dough isn't happy with things, but instead of standing up, she practices self mutulation. Usually because something didn't turn out the right way. Let me say that I'm not chastizing everyone who cuts or has problems, but it think that to a certain extent, blind misery is a popular trend. "She's doing it, so why don't I?" While we're on the concept of food, what about those people legitamately suffering and in need of care. You know what's ironic about these people, they're stronger than people with luxury. Probably because they don't have things handed to you.
If you have anything to share in regards to my assessments, I'm all fingers (braille reader) haha.
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Why do people ask for help they don't want.
One of the reasons is that they Have no idea at all what they DO want. They enjoy fitting in with the victims usually. Because of such confusion the easy path is to be a victim and then you always have someone else to lean on or turn to. It takes amazing courage and strength of character to stand up and say. "I'm OK now! I now know what to do to change my life".
They are scared to face that, so they hide behind the comfort (In their own minds) of failure. They want to be better but they just don't know how to cope with such simplicity.
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