An Answer to Inquiries

I have tried to answer the question, "What do we do while waiting for what we have imagined to manifest? What if it is a long gestation period and the present situation is negative?" Neville said to forgive the present and to live in the end. If the end is your present, then the present is past. But this causes more confusion:

"I get what you're saying. It's all "past history" because the actual imagined "end" is the Promise. However, would that mean the entire journey getting there doesn't matter then? Because I'm predestined to eventually arrive at the finish line, so to speak? Then why is the journey so important to (most of) us? Why would one person suffer suffer suffer on the journey while another has wonderful positive experiences, hand over fist? I'd like to enjoy the ride, and so far, I haven't" (Anonymous).

I started to attempt to answer the above by referring to Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (http://mastertext.spb.ru/pics/Psycho-Cybernetics.pdf). Everyone is different and is on a different trip, has different needs for different spiritual progress. We are what we make ourselves and go through what we need to be turned into the greater likeness of God in the end. God is us, and does not fear death, pain and suffering as much as he values our grasping in the end what it is that we are. The God we are of is an eternal being, a concept we do not really understand. This universe is only about sixteen billion years young, and there is no telling what life forms we have been or will be. But in the end we will be like him.

One writes: "I've read the law and the promise, and understand fully that God is my own imagination, and by gardening my own thoughts, pruning as he tells us (or script tells us) we should easily manifest what we imagine. But how to pass the negative blueprint from the unconsious mind, because that's blocking most people. How to prune the (invisble garden) unconsious when you don't even know what programs it runs while it is unconscious..."

The negative blueprints and unknown programs of the unconscious mind, negative and contrary environments -- how does one get through it? Things were not positive for Jesus. Ever. His time here is described as three days descended into the sufferings of hell. But the Holy Spirit (Consciousness) in his mind kept him going through the negativity with positive thoughts toward achieving his goal. We do not change the programs of our unconscious minds; that is done by God in the imbuement with the Holy Spirit.

That is a real deal. One actually "just" receives what God wants to give. I happened to get guided by ministers at an independent Charismatic/Pentecostal church. My New Testament Theology professor, J. Rodman Williams, received the Holy Spirit while alone in his study. My sister received while taking a bath. Then you know that the Christ "outside" . . . is inside! You prune with faith, the evidence in you that what you desire does exist and it is for you. You do not attract it, your world reflects what you believe of yourself.

This is Christmas, a sign that from its low point of ignorance our lives increase to the becoming of Most High. And all we have to do, really, is to receive. Have a merry one.