When you look at personal growth and personal change
you look at where you are and where you want to go. A question that always
arises is that of God. Where do you fit in God's realm? What part does God
play in your personal growth and personal change? What or who is God? How
do you know God is real? Do you need to know the bible forward and
backward? Are you a better person for believing in God? How much of your
personal growth and personal change can you depend on God to develop?
The answers to these questions would go a long way in
aiding in your personal growth and personal change program. What does God
have in store for you? What is the purpose of your life?
If you study every religion in the world you'll find
that each has their own answers to these questions and they are mostly all
different. You'll find that faith is something you need to rely upon to
fill in the missing blanks.
In the old testament of the Christian bible, faith is
what Daniel used when he was put in the lion's den and came out unscathed.
It's such a phenomenal story that we are either suspicious of the story
being real or we admire Daniel's relationship with God. If the story is
real, what could possibly be the explanation of a man put in a den of
lions that have previously eaten other humans other than what religion
wants us to believe?
Is it possible that there is another explanation? I
suspect so. I recently witnessed a similar event. It had nothing to do
with lions but it did have to do with wasps and being on a roof. When it
comes to bees most people avoid them or stay away from them. And most of
us have been stung by a bee at one time or another—something we definitely
want to avoid. We admire bee keepers and have seen them in their
protective suits. And of course we've seen someone without a protective
suit around a bee hive. Yes, there are people who know how to handle
bees—honey bees. But how about wasps?
A fellow I recently hired to install Waterloov gutter
guards was on a roof removing some gutter covers to repair. I was nearby
on a ladder and noticed a wasp nest about 5 inches in diameter with about
a dozen wasps flying about under one of the panels he needed to remove.
I've worked near wasps nests before and found that as
long as I leave them alone, they leave me alone, but this nest had to be
removed. I descended the ladder to ask the homeowner if she had any bee
spray to kill them. She had none and as I returned to tell my new
installer that we had a problem I observed him holding the gutter cover
panel with the wasp nest attached in his hand. He took his other hand with
a pry bar and simply knocked the wasp nest to the ground.
I expected to see him running away with dozens of
wasps chasing him but instead he stood fairly motionless on the roof with
a dozen wasps just flying about him in confusion. He went on about his
work and finished the repair without incident. If I hadn't observed this
first hand I would have had difficulty believing what I had seen.
Later I asked him if he had ever been stung and he
said, “No!” He's been working with gutters for fourteen years and never
been stung. I was stung twice just last year. Was it his belief in God
that keeps him from
getting stung? He's not even religious and has no feelings about God one
way or the other. What could explain his experience with wasps and
Daniel's experience with the lions? Of course my worker is not the only
person who has been in incredibly dangerous situations. There are guys who
get in bath tubs full of rattle snakes. But most of these snake handlers
at one time or another have been bitten by a snake unlike Daniel who
wasn't attacked by the lions and my guy who has never been stung.
What could explain their experiences? I believe it is
in the nature of God. You don't have to believe in God, in fact God
doesn't give a damn whether you believe in God or not. And God is pretty
amazing. And guess what? It doesn't matter whether you believe in God or
not. Your personal growth and personal change can only be thwarted if you
have confusions about your relationship with God.
So who is God? Rather than who, let's look at what
God is. I'm talking about the ultimate God. This is the God of Christians,
Islam,Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Vodun, Scientology, Catholicism,
and every other known religion there is believing in a higher power or
God. To answer this, its important to look at what we know to be factual.
If God is omnipotent would he/she/it be stupid about things like
mathematics? Don't think so. We never think of God be a mathematician, do
we? Would he be stupid about things like chemistry? Or physics? Or
Biology? Or Probability?
In fact, if anyone had the answers to all the things
we don't understand, it would be God. And maybe that's because God IS
the laws of mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, and probability.
And guess what? These laws govern every living and
non living thing. God is in every one and every thing. God is in the
mosquito that we hate and the hummingbird we admire. Humans are lucky in
that we are the most sophisticated manifestation of God. After all we have
a better comprehension of mathematics, physics, probability, and biology
than any other animal on earth. When and if we fully understand all these
laws we'll understand how Daniel survived the lion's den and why the new
fellow who works for me could stand calmly on a roof with a dozen angry
wasps flying about him to name just two enigmas. We'll also understand
things like deja vous, Edgar Cayce, clairvoyance, esp, the ability to bend
metal like spoons mentally, life after death, and so on.
There are no subliminal messages from any deity or
God telling you what to do with your life or what your purpose is. Your
purpose is whatever you choose it to be. Your personal growth and personal
change program is what you make it to be. There is no good and there is no
bad. There is no right and there is no wrong. There are simply a lot of
different ways of doing and looking at things. The goal is to choose the
options with the lowest mental and physical cost while being responsible
to God. Yes, you can murder, cheat, and pillage, but these choices have
huge consequences and are not responsible to God in promoting health and
well being.
It's important to know that God is in the tornado,
the earth quake, the tsunami, Bin Laden, Moammar Gadhafi, your priest or
clergy man, your mother, father, our President, politicians, and so
on—everyone and every thing. Of course we have our likes and our dislikes
and when the tornado tears down our home it's up to each of us to figure
out a way of surviving it and hopefully profiting from it for personal
change and personal growth.
We'd all like to believe that if we declare our
allegiance to God, that he will be pulling for us. That he cares what
happens to us. And that he'll be there in times of need. Of course this is
all correct. For as you declare your allegiance to God you are declaring
your allegiance to you—God. And you certainly care what happens to you and
you certainly want to be creative in times of need. And you are not alone!
Your friends, relatives, and many acquaintances (all God) also care what
happens to you.
In
summary, don't let your personal growth or personal change program get
bogged down waiting from subliminal messages from God. As you are the
manifestation of the laws of chemistry, mathematics, probability, and
biology, you are God.
Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E. NGH certified, a prominent figure in Personal Growth and Personal Change at http://www.DStressDoc.com
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