The Blessedness Of Research
The blessedness of research
There are many of us who have difficulty in accepting something, whether it be a statement or a new toy, without first wanting to examine it to establish the truth about it, how it affects ourselves.
Give a baby a new rattle and watch the thorough research programme that follows. The rattle will be shaken, sucked, bitten, or hammered against the side of the cot in order to discover whether it is acceptable or not. If, for example, the rattle bites back, the rattle may be unacceptable. On the other hand, if it makes a soft tinkling sound or tastes nice, the rattle would be acceptable.
But the doubt always remains whether the baby will accept the rattle even if it does bite back. Some people seem to have an inborn quirk to choose the one option which causes the most drama and trauma. Whether such a choice is made consciously or subconsciously would in itself require further research.
Before launching on some research project, researchers should remember God's eternal invitation that when the project becomes traumatic and complicated, to turn to Him and that He would give them rest: the researching must go on. Sometimes the trauma of the project may be too heavy to bear and then the researcher needs to be warned neither to judge by appearances nor to resist evil, because beyond that evil is more evil.
The irony of this kind of research is that the researcher takes a prenatal decision (before he is born) to undertake these programmes of research. Furthermore, the people he encounters agreed prenatally to serve him albeit as tormentors in this current life on earth. And more ironically that the so-called tormentors are therefore his soul mates!
Can anyone imagine what mental and emotional agonies such people as Moses and Jesus must have suffered and yet later emerged in glory and power from their ordeals? Moses, a prince of Egypt who fell to the level of a shepherd and who spent 40 years in the desert coming to terms with his changed circumstances, to become the leader of men and to meeting the godhead in his soul. Jesus spent a traumatic 40 days in the wilderness coming to terms with his spirituality instead of his mortality. They spent time wrestling with the truth of their missions on this earth plane, after they (and others like them) had prenatally decided what their missions would be on the earth plane, that is, their prenatal choices.
Let us not forget what their inner researching brought to mankind. They demonstrated the power of love over the power of swords. They demonstrated also that all of mankind already possesses these powers, and remain only to be discovered. And finally they demonstrated that Man is God in human manifestation, and lives in each one of us. For are we not the temples of the Living God, created in His image?
There are many of us who have difficulty in accepting something, whether it be a statement or a new toy, without first wanting to examine it to establish the truth about it, how it affects ourselves.
Give a baby a new rattle and watch the thorough research programme that follows. The rattle will be shaken, sucked, bitten, or hammered against the side of the cot in order to discover whether it is acceptable or not. If, for example, the rattle bites back, the rattle may be unacceptable. On the other hand, if it makes a soft tinkling sound or tastes nice, the rattle would be acceptable.
But the doubt always remains whether the baby will accept the rattle even if it does bite back. Some people seem to have an inborn quirk to choose the one option which causes the most drama and trauma. Whether such a choice is made consciously or subconsciously would in itself require further research.
Before launching on some research project, researchers should remember God's eternal invitation that when the project becomes traumatic and complicated, to turn to Him and that He would give them rest: the researching must go on. Sometimes the trauma of the project may be too heavy to bear and then the researcher needs to be warned neither to judge by appearances nor to resist evil, because beyond that evil is more evil.
The irony of this kind of research is that the researcher takes a prenatal decision (before he is born) to undertake these programmes of research. Furthermore, the people he encounters agreed prenatally to serve him albeit as tormentors in this current life on earth. And more ironically that the so-called tormentors are therefore his soul mates!
Can anyone imagine what mental and emotional agonies such people as Moses and Jesus must have suffered and yet later emerged in glory and power from their ordeals? Moses, a prince of Egypt who fell to the level of a shepherd and who spent 40 years in the desert coming to terms with his changed circumstances, to become the leader of men and to meeting the godhead in his soul. Jesus spent a traumatic 40 days in the wilderness coming to terms with his spirituality instead of his mortality. They spent time wrestling with the truth of their missions on this earth plane, after they (and others like them) had prenatally decided what their missions would be on the earth plane, that is, their prenatal choices.
Let us not forget what their inner researching brought to mankind. They demonstrated the power of love over the power of swords. They demonstrated also that all of mankind already possesses these powers, and remain only to be discovered. And finally they demonstrated that Man is God in human manifestation, and lives in each one of us. For are we not the temples of the Living God, created in His image?
