The Becoming God

Sunday, May 14, 2017

If Crisis is Catalytic, How Do We Get the Catalyst's EFFECT Without the Crisis?

Aye, there's the rub: to get the catalytic effect of a crisis, you need the crisis. Well, no, we do not. We need to expand our imagination. There is first of all the Law of Reversibility. While we expect cause to bring about effect, we can also expect effect (properly imagined) to being about its cause.

In crisis, it is necessary to imagine the desired effect, the RESULT we want, rather than what is not wanted. Can we put another layer on this, and imagine what result we would want IF there was a crisis? "IF there were such and such crisis, I would want and think and desire like what? Were I NOT to think of what I do not want, what would I imagine?"

This is not to dwell upon the imagining of a crisis, to plan it out in all its detail. God forbid. But we can use crisis, real or imagined, to stimulate the imagining of what effect IS desired. This is the plot of every story -- some problem has to be overcome.

What problems do you have to overcome? WHAT IS THE END RESULT THAT WOULD BE DESIRABLE? Do not worry about the problem. Do not worry about what you are going to do about it. IMAGINE THE END RESULT, AND IMAGINE IT AS THOUGH IT WERE YOUR PRESENT REALITY. Revision your day, at night as you go to sleep, as ending in the state you desire. You have received and now HAVE that situation, whatever it may be. Learn of God, and let it be good.

1 Comments:

  • I received this from Maria:

    Hi Dan,
    I enjoy reading your blog posts. Sometimes have to read them a few times to wrap my brain around everything you've written-all good!

    One post in particular, the one I commented on, "Crisis Effect"- has stuck in my mind. (Information has a habit of showing up when I need it.)

    Anyway I came across a gem in Proverbs 24:10 to share with you. It's a long way around (so stay with me).

    Here is a post I just wrote on Facebook "Neville and Scripture":

    "I've a friend that likes to post Bible verses. Often I look up the particular verse and the meaning of the words to pull deeper meaning or better translations.

    Recently he posted a version of Proverbs 24:10. Seems pretty straight forward:

    If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small (narrow)

    On the surface it says how weak we are when actually tested or that our strength can only be tested in time if trouble...

    But wait!

    I scanned down all the commentary
    on Biblehub and found this gem:

    Verse 10. - If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.The gnome*seems to be unconnected with the preceding. There is a paronomasia* between צָרָה (tsarah), "adversity," and צַר(tsar), "small," narrow, which is retained by Fleischer: "Si segnis fueris die angustiae, angustae sunt vires tuae."
    ******
    *So we may say in English, "If thou faint in time of straitness, straitened is thy strength." *
    *******
    (Which was followed by more of the surface interpretation.)
    But this is exactly what Neville asks of us!
    Who knew there were puns in the Bible!

    *gnome "/nom/"noun
    noun: gnome; plural noun: gnomes
    a short statement encapsulating a general truth; a maxim.
    *paronomasia perənōˈmāZH(ē)ə/
    noun
    1. a play on words; a pun."

    How did that get missed in translation, and (logically)missed in interpretation?

    Your strength is in your weakness!

    Sincerely,
    Maria

    "When I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor. 12:19) -- Dan

    By Blogger Daniel C. Branham-Steele, at 3:15 PM  

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