I grew up in one of those fundamentalist churches that believes they are changing the world. They held the keys to salvation if you only understood their "truth." For whatever reason, I came to believe that I, myself, was someone who had a mission to dispense my church's truth and save the nation and world.
But after I found out about the corruption in the organization, learned about the sins of the founder of the church, and saw firsthand some of the hypocrisies, I lost my faith. After years of searching, I came across the Divine Truth teachings and encountered ideas and principles I couldn't dispute.
I learned I still had a "messiah complex." And while it may be loving to want to help people, thinking that you can save them by getting them to follow you for your own power's sake cannot be loving. Truth itself is God's viewpoint on any given matter and it is not up to the individual to amend it.
So what do I do with the positive side of my desire to help others? I have to see that for all the Divine Truth teachings I've heard and accepted with my mind, maybe almost none of it has entered and found lodgment in my heart. And the reason why it hasn't is because of my sin.
Sin is the great block to Truth and Love and the one thing that stands in the way of our inheritance of joy. Instead of basking in the joy that God's Love would give us, we believe we can be happy without doing things God's way. Our ignorance is our downfall.
Jesus has said that our greatest fight is the one with our own sin. Think and consider that. It's not some foreign power. It's not the enemies of Islam, or of the Jews, or of the Christians. No, our greatest battle is the one raging within ourselves. Will we continue down the road of sin and destruction? Or will we address our sin, seek God's Love and Truth, and find bliss on the Divine Love path? We cannot even receive God's Love without awakening to our own sin.
This may sound easy on paper or in theory. But when you look at your everyday lives and your patterns of addiction, you are looking at things that can appear like unassailable mountain sides. "What? I have to give up drinking coffee? How will I function?" "I should do what with my dog Bubbles? Bubbles has seen me through the worst times in my life. You're crazy. Stay away from me." I once told my boss my opinion about pets and he told me to my face, "I'd rather kill you than my dog."
Taking an inventory of your sins can be a humbling process. You may feel that you are a determined, hard-working, or strong individual but how can that be true when you find it so hard to give up one addiction? Can we really say we are doing our best when we can't confront our addictions for the sake of love?
I have my favorite channels on Youtube. I can listen to some politics or mainstream religious ideas but when I hear Tucker Carlson champion an individual's or nation's "right of self-defense" I just lose my interest and want to consume more Divine Truth content. No one holds a candle to Jesus and Mary in my opinion. You compare the principles in Divine Truth to those of most people in the world, and you will start to form an opinion of how truly hellish is the condition of the Earth.
But the world will tell you something else too. There is a shady elite of people that run the money system, governments, and the news and entertainment industry of the world. They will tell you that THEY are the real enemies.
Don't listen.
Sin is the real enemy. And while there may be elite peoples in elite circles running things, they are no different than your local drug dealer. "You want what kind of drug? Ok, I can get it for you. But it's gonna cost you..." The people running the schemes are playing a difficult game. If they slip up and get exposed, they know how unforgiving "the masses" can be. We're asking them to keep supplying us with the magic pills that will help us avoid our emotions, our problems, and ultimately, our sin.
If Jesus and Mary wanted to, they could advertise Divine Truth on television, on billboards, or in newspapers. They could create a delegation and visit religious leaders and try to proselytize their teachings onto them.
Why then do they talk to ordinary people like you and me? It's only because we are a little more willing to hear it than everyone else. And when we don't want to hear it, we'll probably reject it and they'll try to find someone else to talk to.
That means that it's up to me to look at my own sin, my own lusts, my own unloving desires. I can't blame Trump or Xi Jinping or any other publicly-known punching bag. When I am free of sin and addiction, nobody can really manipulate me anyway. When I have the natural power that love in my heart would give me to affect change in the world, I can actually start to influence things to change for the better.
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