Our lives align with our beliefs as a testimony of our character, and, while our character may be publicly exposed, it is in our privacy where it lays bare. Who you and I are, stand in replete testimony when 'we think' no one is looking. The integrity of being, is best understood by those who see us in all situations, especially in our perceived solitude. No one on earth knows me better than my parents, who raised me, and now, my wife, who lives and experiences most of who I am and have grown to become. My strengths, my weaknesses, my battles, my joys are established in the doings and living experiences forged within me. These are all shaped by those I have shared 'life' with, either by being together or vicariously through multiple media 'investments'.
Experiences and beliefs are shaped by systematic examinations in life, becoming systemic characters of our integrated selves. The complete truth is, that whether we believe it or not, how we spend our time shapes our systemic beliefs and realities. Over indulging in entertainment, binds us deeply to the surrealistic worlds spun by imaginations, detaching us from the honesty and pain of our daily world experience vying for our hearts and souls. It feels better to revel in a surrealistic dream, than within the toil and struggle of life, yet the more we engage in the surreal, the more disappointment and discouragement delves into our days.
Drinking deeply of life, in life and through life seems too caustic and like the poison which slowly kills, yet, it is the other, the escape from life that is truly the poison which leisurely takes our life from us. These poisons which dull the senses or carry us away from reality, these venoms that we allow into our veins only postpone the inevitable, our need, true need to confront life and find the answers to the consequences of disobedience and self-service. Systematically we allow one form or the other of escape or life to infuse our veins allowing a systemic conundrum press us hard for solutions.
We should choose to face such quandaries with the sharpest of our senses, fully piqued, effusively effervescent with engagement of the only one who can help us find the answers to our dilemmas. How often we tend to run away rather than run towards our only hope, our only way to peace.
Life requires, no, demands proactive, systematic endeavors which color and polish our systemic view of our days. Without a systematic search, should we choose to remain unprepared for the struggle, we will be reduced to only retreat and hide. Yes there are a plethora of people much more intelligent and Holy Spirit led than I. But in this, my journey, it is only my responsibility to wrestle in a manner that allows God to reveal Himself to me with greater abundance each day. Even most cancers start in one place and slowly consume healthy cells until the life of the organism is snuffed out. We all are systemically infected with a cancerous life. Systematically and systemically, I am pressing hard to restore health to this body allowing God to perform His miracle of perfect, systemic healing.
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