The habits that get us there are the habits that keep us there.
Unless a golfer desires to par a course, he never will.
Unless a kid desires to be a better baseball player, he never will.
Unless a musician desires to make music instead of noise, he will make noise.
For people of religion, they will never be any better at it than they are today; for at the end of the day, they must return to the back of the line and do it all over again. Today is no more than a repeat performance of yesterday, tomorrow will no more that a repeat performance of today, and therefore they find themselves in an endless cycle of repeat performances.
Religion is a learned behavior and all of the parts are scripted. People are willing to do it again because of positive reinforcements, such as a pat on the head, a piece of bread with a sip of juice, after which they trot to the back of the line to do it all over again like obedient puppies. The habits that get them there are the habits that keep them there. Their minds have been imprisoned by the power of repeated habits without them even knowing their minds have been programmed, perhaps from early childhood.
Likewise the golfer, because of the habits he created in not knowing the proper way to play golf, becomes a prisoner of his own mind because of his self-imposed accumulation of bad habits; therefore, he deceives himself to believe that he is a golfer only because he is able to spray golf balls all over the world. Blinded by his own pride, he will not admit that he doesn't know what he is doing. He does not see his bad habits while believing that he will get it right if he continues his journey, an endless cycle of repeat performances. He believes his wrong way is the right way even though he does not know the difference.
The person of religion does not know that he does not know God, for his mind has been deceived to believe that he knows God because of his training to be religious through repeat performances and with the positive reinforcement at the end of the line: a pat on the head, or a piece of bread with a sip of juice.
To know God, we must be able to separate God from religion and religion from God, for these are not a pair made in heaven. Just as we are able to separate salt from pepper, we must be able to understand that God is light and religion is darkness.
Blinded by pride, however, we do not know the difference between light and darkness, or the difference between God and religion. This is when God intervenes and comes to us instead of us trying to get to God through religion. This is when Christ the Savior comes to us to do for us that which we are unable to do for ourselves.
"There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth." (John 1: 6-14)
Unless a golfer desires to par a course, he never will.
Unless a kid desires to be a better baseball player, he never will.
Unless a musician desires to make music instead of noise, he will make noise.
For people of religion, they will never be any better at it than they are today; for at the end of the day, they must return to the back of the line and do it all over again. Today is no more than a repeat performance of yesterday, tomorrow will no more that a repeat performance of today, and therefore they find themselves in an endless cycle of repeat performances.
Religion is a learned behavior and all of the parts are scripted. People are willing to do it again because of positive reinforcements, such as a pat on the head, a piece of bread with a sip of juice, after which they trot to the back of the line to do it all over again like obedient puppies. The habits that get them there are the habits that keep them there. Their minds have been imprisoned by the power of repeated habits without them even knowing their minds have been programmed, perhaps from early childhood.
Likewise the golfer, because of the habits he created in not knowing the proper way to play golf, becomes a prisoner of his own mind because of his self-imposed accumulation of bad habits; therefore, he deceives himself to believe that he is a golfer only because he is able to spray golf balls all over the world. Blinded by his own pride, he will not admit that he doesn't know what he is doing. He does not see his bad habits while believing that he will get it right if he continues his journey, an endless cycle of repeat performances. He believes his wrong way is the right way even though he does not know the difference.
The person of religion does not know that he does not know God, for his mind has been deceived to believe that he knows God because of his training to be religious through repeat performances and with the positive reinforcement at the end of the line: a pat on the head, or a piece of bread with a sip of juice.
To know God, we must be able to separate God from religion and religion from God, for these are not a pair made in heaven. Just as we are able to separate salt from pepper, we must be able to understand that God is light and religion is darkness.
Blinded by pride, however, we do not know the difference between light and darkness, or the difference between God and religion. This is when God intervenes and comes to us instead of us trying to get to God through religion. This is when Christ the Savior comes to us to do for us that which we are unable to do for ourselves.
"There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth." (John 1: 6-14)
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