Healthy Choices (Spiritual)
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
(John 3:5-8)
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This is truly the last frontier of healthy human development; and it may be the true last frontier of understanding of the universe, as well. It is the last frontier not because it is the last area that needs our attention--indeed, spiritual choices are best instigated as soon after we exit the womb as is possible. Healthy spiritual choices tend to be the last frontier because, many times, we think of them as being expendable. If a spiritual choice disrupts our physical or mental well-being, we tend to discard it. To be blunt: this is the lazy man's choice; spiritual exercise should be the driver for both our physical and mental well-being. For that reason, we need to interweave healthy spiritual choices with all areas of our life.
A question that one may ask is, “Why must spiritual choice interweave with every area of our life?” The simplest answer to that question is this: because they already are, whether we acknowledge them or not. A more exploratory reason that the interweaving of spiritual choices is a necessity is because humanity is at its best when each one of us incites challenges to both our physical and our mental environments. The best challenge to these environments is to adapt them to our spiritual choices. This is becoming more and more evident, as certain behaviors of public figures are moving from the darkness, into the light.
There is a surge of news stories about public figures professing strong spiritual beliefs, without conviction. Instead, these public figures are compromising those same beliefs, for the sake of physical satisfaction and/or mental expedience. In most of these cases, the compromise destroyed an opportunity to grow in both mental and physical ways (as pertains to true satisfaction). The burden that falls upon those people, who compromise their spiritual principles, has a name: guilt.
We must place the spiritual exercises prominently--as a certain important book of the ages says--for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes. In that life's position, they will serve as a wrapper for all other conscious and subconscious behaviors. Furthermore, the benefits will not stop there. With healthy spiritual choices, the benefits will form a layer of motivation control around your unconscious mind, as well. In addition to that, a wrapper of spiritual exercises will sap the power from guilt, when the exercise is true, and when we reinforce it, consistently and insistently, by study and meditation
FULL DISCLOSURE: the item that sits in position one, below, shows my particular bias, in this regard. Therefore, let me give you some additional motivation to engage in healthy spiritual choices. The damage that you do by ignoring them is not limited to you; it is as a prophet of the LORD told king David. This is an extract from their conversation, as recorded in the Bible, in the second book of Samuel, otherwise called the second book of the kings, chapter twelve, verses thirteen and fourteen. At the time of this lesson for king David (and for us, too), the king and the prophet were analyzing a certain sin that king David had committed. We have highlighted, below, the most stinging portion of what king David had to hear and bear. This rebuke is still active today.
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And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD.
And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
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Guilt is, indeed, a powerful, acid for the wasting away of both a healthy body and a healthy mind. We want you to take the time to avoid guilt.
The sources listed here, are just the beginnings of the wisdom of the ages. They will help you to make healthy spiritual choices, as well as showing you why healthy spiritual choices belong on the front burner of your whole life, and for your entire life.
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