Take No Money For Your Journey Right Now

Some people have wealth and integrity, but they have no caring, compassion, consideration or concern for others…and so they are not keyed in to the malfeasance of social issues that denigrate people and desecrate society.  Their wealth, be it earned, inherited, or perceived, becomes a boom that lifts them far above the plight of the common man and so they look down on others with a despicable gate of complacency and disdain, because their views of life is seen through the eyes of obscurity.

It is a proven fact that the further away you are from something the less daunting it appears to be, the less threatening…and therefore by deduction more agreeable.  So it is not without regard that people who count themselves to have apprehended will feel less charitable and superfluous in their thoughts, words and deed, while craving yet the more…and sometimes even trampling over the underlings to take the little that they have to help themselves amass even more, because in they eyes, mind, and spirit…they, too, have not yet attained all that they perceive is their right to attain.  The problem, however, stems from not from the insufficiency of their financial paramours or staid and stoic positions of grandeur, but their altered perception of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which stymies their inherent ability to give, receive, and retain the simplest and most basic need of human existence, which is to love and be loved.  When people develop an inordinate love of things they lose the vision of hope for all mankind, because the inanimate objects they acquiesce to entice them to action and give them the fore pleasure of intimacy… and satiety, but only for a season…because like hallucinogenic drugs, they alter their perception (awareness of surrounding objects and conditions), thoughts, and feelings and cause hallucinations, sensations and images that seem real though they are not.  Yet they clamor to them, because they numb them from the pain and discomfort that comes from baring oneself to another and running the risk of not having that other person reciprocate in kind.

Many months ago, I wrote and posted a Poem entitled Love is Not a Feeling.  It scored a few likes and a whole lot of questions, because it forced people to reassess the values in their relationships.  (That poem will be posted under separate cover, but for now I’ll bring in an excerpt from another such message that I wrote around the same time in response to one of those questions: Love Is A Complex Misrepresentation of An Arbitrarily Intriguing Emotion, inserted immediately below).

Love is a complex misrepresentation of an arbitrarily intriguing emotion that can also be a catalyst for change because what we perceive as love is really the embodiment of an abstract (almost rogue) emotion that impresses itself upon our consciousness as an idyllic feeling that manifests itself in different ways to different people and cause them to reciprocate in like manner according to their own interpretation of the nuances they experience when they engage or interact in specific ways – and with specific people. So at times, the feeling might ebb and at other times it might flow, because the circumstances of life are such that they tend to alter our chemistry and create an environment that is hostile to the embodiment of that emotion. Once the right chemistry returns, Love, as we know, it returns. Kind of like the phases of the moon and the effect they have on the ocean.

Why did I share this with you? It’s simple: Sometimes the truest form of love is a still tongue that keeps a wise head; sometimes it’s a spoken word that breaks the din of silence; sometimes it’s a simple touch – but sometimes it can also be found in distance.

When you use the word LOVE, the mind arbitrarily goes to the erotic relationship, but that thinking is very much one sided because love is a factor in every relationship, and it is more than making somebody feel good or hating on them because they have extended affairs, or being callous and impervious to your needs in exchange for meeting theirs… and sometimes love is even a one-sided issue, and at times it can be boisterous or flirtatious, or even self-sacrificing. In all honesty, both sexes are prone to transference and more often than not the most volatile relationship one can experience is not for a lack of love, but a lack of understanding. The same is not only true in erotic and cordial relationships, but in professional ones; but the true essence of disheartenment is that there is a void (some call it a God-shaped vacuum) in all of us that needs to be filled love…and there none who can be sustained or satisfied by anything else, because like the deer pants for water, so does the human spirit panther for God…and God is love.  Sister Whitney said, “The greatest love of all is inside of me,” and that, in and itself is most people’s problem, because they have not yet learned how to love themselves, and therefore they cannot freely and unconditionally love anyone else. I know…because I’ve been there, too, but thank God for his redeeming grace, because I’m not there anymore.

Marilyn Hickey delved into this in a recent broadcast, what follows is a transcript taken from snippets of that message:

The problem with not feeling hurt is that you won’t be able to feel joy, because you become locked off to feeling…

Her guest, whose name I didn’t get, went on to clarify her message by saying, “Feeling love comes with feeling pain, because we are dealing with EMOTIONS…The key (to the pain) is on the emotional side…the trauma… but it is not just about getting healed, but that we need to walk out that healing.

In my conclusion, when you extend yourself outwards to others in love, you will undoubtedly leave yourself open to pain, but you will also your heart open to Jesus, and He will minister to your heart and redeem you by his spirit; heal all your emotions; restore you unto righteousness before God; put you in right-standing order before God and man; and set your face like flint – and God, himself, will pour out unto you a blessing such that you have no capacity to retain, which ensures that the cycle of receiving freely and giving freely will continue…because as God pours into your life through His spirit, that truth will be made manifest by the overflow that pours from your life through your spirit into other less hardy spirits to bring them much needed sustenance and satiety.  Therefore, “1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.” (BSB)