But we can equate all those things with having money, unaware that God is The BEAUTY of LIFE on every level of existence, shining out against anything that doesn’t pertain to The BEAUTY of LIFE. With all the worries that we may have like financial worries, God is pure bliss and all the things that we need God is abundance but on a level far above money. Therefore, through God there is no need for money.
How can this be understood in a world that is so close to MINUS that calls upon a need for money to compensate for its deficit? How can we understand that all the woes of this world including sickness is due to the presence of MINUS who exists as a huge VOID away from The BEAUTY of LIFE - God?
This forms an irony as so many people set their sights upon having money in order to enjoy The BEAUTY of LIFE but they fail to set their sights upon God; instead they seek out a worldly illusion of The BEAUTY of LIFE but it is a sad illusion since it is unsustainable; the only BEAUTY of LIFE that is sustainable is God.
But from a worldly perspective, the way to truly gain The BEAUTY of LIFE is through having enough money to be free from financial enslavement which is why so many rich people sit upon a mountain of wealth, for their wealth represents a distance away from MINUS who lives through its ill elements like the ill element anti-TIA.
TIA is what God operates through (Talent, Interest and ability) that is a light that shines out above money; which means that when someone’s career is based upon TIA, it is something they would do even if they had all the money in the world.
Since this world is so close to the VOID most people don’t discover their TIA, instead they become financially enslaved and work through anti-TIA; in other words, they do jobs they hate or a job they would leave behind if they were free from financial enslavement.
In countries like the UK that have laws against unsuitable working conditions, laws that regulate working hours, laws against low pay, anti-TIA can only sink employees so low, unlike other countries like third world countries that lack all those laws that leads many employees into a form of hell through anti-TIA. In such instances, MINUS is able to manifest itself in a powerful way through anti-TIA and financial enslavement.
For instance, there is a country very close to the US where the standard of living is extremely low especially for many people who are poor. There are no laws against unreasonable low pay which means that many workers are paid as low as $5 per day when in the US, that is what many low paid workers earn in one hour.
It leads to a woeful contrast between the lifestyle of the poor in the US and the poor in that other country that is so close. The poor in such a country have no hope of enjoying The BEAUTY of LIFE since the nation is too close to MINUS who lives through things like corruption, greed, poor leadership, a lacking of proper laws etc. etc.
There was a long distance runner who woke up in the early hours of the morning to run miles to train for international races. He lived in a poverty stricken country steeped in corruption. His hours of dedication paid off and he won $3,000 which to him and his family was like winning $1m. His life was going to change forever; he would be able to move out of the hut he was living in with his wife and build a proper house, except his money got swallowed up by the corrupt system his country was built upon.
When he went to the Government office to ask where his money had gone, he was told he would have to pay for them to investigate.
The point that I am making is that since this world is so close to MINUS, it makes it very difficult for many people to have The BEAUTY of LIFE; they have life but with MINUS who is able to live in their life and yet the basis of us having been born in this world in the first place instead of higher planes of existence away from MINUS is because we do not fit in with The BEAUTY of LIFE.
In order for us to fit in, we have to be born again of The Holy Spirit since God is The Father, Son AND The Holy Spirit. In order to get to the Father, we have to turn to the Son who had laid out a narrow path for us to follow so that the basis of our life is to be born again as a Holy person who SHINES OUT against MINUS.
But how many people want to be holy? In other words, who wants to be godly in an ungodly world that is so close to the basis of ungodliness which is MINUS?
Instead what many people want is The BEAUTY of LIFE but without God, they want it through money which is when they can open themselves up to the huge VOID to feed their hunger to enjoy The BEAUTY of LIFE. Many people don’t want God to be a part of it since through God, there is that narrow path that they don’t want to walk upon since that narrow path is all about seeking God above worldly things and pleasures.
When on that narrow path, one has to leave MINUS behind but MINUS maybe where all the fun is.
A rich man named Errol drives a sports car that makes most people drool. He goes into a club and the most beautiful women target him and he is able to take his pick. It is a bit like being presented with a huge box of chocolates; he can take his pick of the ones he wants to gorge himself upon. He doesn’t like the strawberry flavour or the hard toffee since it gets stuck in his teeth and takes too long to suck; he likes the crunchy nutty chocolates and the fudge. He is very picky.
He has this huge taste for chocolates and he is always presented with new ones even though he is a very ordinary looking guy. He knows all those women are only after him for his money but he doesn’t care.
He knows that if he was on that narrow path, all those women wouldn’t fit on the narrow path. The path is so narrow that not even one of them could fit on it. So he doesn’t want to be on that narrow path since it’s too narrow; he wants to be out in that vast space where anything goes.
He loves expensive cars but not just one; he has a garage filled with $19m worth of cars and he always has his eye for new expensive cars.
If he was on that narrow path, there wouldn’t even be room for one of those cars for Christ knows that we live in a world steeped in a gross ill balance between the rich and the poor. Can one of his followers drive on the narrow path in a car that cost $1m? No, he would have to downsize but he doesn’t want to downsize. If he had his way, he would drive all his cars into heaven. He hates the fact that he can’t even drive one of them in. He hates that narrow path for it’s too narrow. He doesn’t feel that he has any room to breath on that narrow path.
He gives money to charity which he feels good about but if he was on the narrow path, maybe Christ would ask him to give more but he doesn’t want to. Suppose if Christ wanted him to give all his money to the poor? Errol keeps well away from the narrow path because he loves his money too much.
He also loves hell-raising, smoking, taking class A drugs on occasions and he loves drinking alcohol in excess but alcohol of the most expensive kind. He loves drinking wine but you can forget about the wine that is sold for £5 in the supermarket. The lowest he is willing to pay for a bottle of wine is £50 since he hates anything that is cheap even if it tastes nice; it’s the principal.
He loves having what most people can’t afford. But one day Earl doesn’t feel so great and goes to the doctor and after a few tests he is dealt a huge blow; he has a serious disease that makes his blood grow cold. The shock when his doctor told him had blasted him like a bomb. He suddenly realised that he might die and leave The BEAUTY of LIFE behind along with all his cars and his huge mansions.
He doesn’t want to leave anything behind; he wants to enjoy The BEAUTY of LIFE forever. He has children who he can will his wealth too but he doesn’t want to will anything to anyone because he wants to live to enjoy his own wealth.
Now every day is different from the moment he wakes up in the morning. He looks around at his beautiful home with its vast garden and he grieves at the prospect of leaving it all behind for someone else to buy his precious home and live in it. He wants to stay in his own home; a home that most people can’t even dream of. He has homes all over the world and he loves all of them and wants to live to enjoy them.
But now he views his home with new eyes - sad eyes that differ from the previous hard look in his eyes that brimmed with confidence and triumph that always said LOOK HOW I AM ABLE TO ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF LIFE…
He used to feel so victorious in a world steeped in the ill balance. Now he is afraid and he now wants to make peace with God and starts to pray. Now he considers heading onto the narrow path and if Christ wants him to give all his wealth to the poor, he would give it away since he doesn’t have long to enjoy The BEAUTY of LIFE anyway and he feels that he feels that maybe his children should earn their own wealth.
He curses the doctors for not having a cure for his illness; they can treat it in the hope that it will disappear but there is no pill he can pop that would make the illness just go away.
Now he is too sick to go to any of those clubs; he no longer has an appetite for chocolate; he is too sick to enjoy it; he just wants to live, he doesn’t want to die; he has so much in his life worth living for; he had been living the dream for the past 30 years; he doesn’t want it to end. Every day he laments about why he has to grow old and get sick.
Sickness puts a new spin on everything. Now he views his life in the past instead of the future. He knows that the pharaohs of old tried to take their wealth with them so that they could enjoy The BEAUTY of LIFE in the afterlife. Look how they turned out…
The thought of dying terrifies him and there is no one he can turn to for help, not even the doctors who aren’t miracle workers. He tries praying but his heart isn’t in it; he feels like a fake. The truth is, he is loaded down with spiritual baggage that he wants to carry with him; he doesn’t want to leave it behind.
He loves his drinking and carousing with women. He loves money being of no object and going on wild shopping spree. He loves picking up women like a takeaway he can just toss out afterwards. He loves having all the power through having wealth and see the gleam in their eyes that make him feel like a handsome stud. He had never been a looker, not even in his youth and always knew that he needed to have money and lots of it in order to get with the type of beautiful women he wanted.
All his three ex-wives were beauties who wouldn’t have given him the time of day if he wasn’t loaded. They had all filed for divorce due to his womanizing and the courts forced him to pay them far more than he wanted to pay but at least he could afford it. He had been able to walk away and carry on but how can he walk away from death.
As his sickness got worse, Errol decided to go to church and after the service, he sat in the church when the other members of the congregation had left. The minister saw him sitting in the church with a sad expression on his face and the minister went over to Errol and sat next to him and asked.
“What’s troubling you?”
Errol’s expression became very mournful and he said
“I’ve been a very selfish man all my life…. I’ve made millions and wasted millions of extravagant living; I have been a womanizer, I’ve been ruthless and mean but now I’m sick and I want to make peace with God”
The minister looked at Errol in empathy and said
“Do you know that Christ came into this world to suffer and die on the cross for the atonement of our sins and now he has the power to forgive us for all our sins, no matter how terrible the sin had been when we repent to him in earnest”
Errol looked at the minister in surprise and said
“Are you saying that if I repent right now, Christ will forgive me for everything I have done and allow me to go to heaven?”
The minister blanched and said
“If you repent in earnest”
“You mean if I really mean it?” asked Errol with a look of hope in his eyes
“THEN I REPENT” cried Errol
“Don’t tell me” said the minister “pray and ask Christ for his forgiveness”
Errol closed his eyes and clasped his hands together as the minister closed his eyes too and Errol said
“CHRIST...FORGIVE ME FOR WASTING MILLIONS ON EXCESS, FORGIVE ME FOR BEING IMMORAL, FORGIVE ME FOR BEING SELFISH, FORGIVE ME FOR THROWING A BOTTLE OF WHISKY AT MY PREGNANT WIFE, FORGIVE ME FOR SLEEPING WITH THIS UNDERAGE GIRL, FORGIVE ME FOR LEAVING THIS STRIPPER IN A HOTEL ROOM AND NOT PAY THE BILL”
Errol spent ages asking Christ for forgiveness as the minister sat listening in shock.
Afterwards, Errol said
“There………. I think that’s it……….. Am I forgiven?”
The minister eyed Errol somewhat tentatively and answered
“If you meant it”
Afterwards, Errol felt as though a load was off his shoulder but he was still scared about dying. But one day, the doctor came in and told him that there was a new drug that had just come out and wondered whether Errol would want to try it out even though it was still in its experimental stage.
“You mean treat me as a guinea pig” stated Errol scathingly
“No...not exactly” said the Doctor “extensive tests have been carried out and we are confident that the drug will cure you disease but we need your written consent before treating you since the drug is so new”
Errol looked a bit fed up
“What choice do I have?” he said “I’m dying anyway”
Errol then signed the consent form and he was given the drug.
A week later, he felt his strength returning and after tests he was delighted to be told that his illness was in rapid remission.
Errol was jubilant and that evening he invited some friends around to his home for a celebration. He was SO HAPPY; he had his life back; he wasn’t going to die. Now he viewed his home with new eyes that gleamed with joy to know that he wasn’t going to leave it behind afterall.
Now his focus returned to ENJOYING THE BEAUTY OF LIFE which led him back into a club to gorge on chocolates but this time he went for the whole box and invited 35 hot babes back to his mansion and he allowed them to stay a week. By the end of the week, he had gorged himself on all of them to make up for lost time.
In terms of the narrow path, he now looked upon it with disdain knowing that it was such a kill-joy and wouldn’t allow him to enjoy The BEAUTY of LIFE, instead it wanted him to be holy. HOLY! Are you kidding me?
Errol had as much interest in being holy as he was interested in Christ for to him his God was money - MONEY - MONEY. That time in church now seemed like a bad dream that he wanted to forget. The truth was, he wasn’t sorry anyway; he had loved every minute of living on the fast lane. He never wanted it to end; he loved enjoying The BEAUTY of LIFE and planned to keep going and going for as long as possible, especially after his near death scare; now he was even more keen to enjoy every second of his life. Now he was even more extravagant in his spending, knowing that he can’t take it with him.
As far as he is concerned, he already has The BEAUTY of LIFE, he doesn’t need Christ. To him money and The BEAUTY of LIFE are a match made in heaven.
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