Desire Can Make Us Do Some Of The Most Stupid Things
posted by Daniel C. Branham-Steele at
12:33 AM
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God spoke to me audibly, so I set out to find what he has said to other people. I found he is in constant transition becoming himself MANIFESTED, and there is nothing other than himself, which makes him us and we him in the process of becoming him. The processes involved in his becoming are complicated to us, but he knows exactly what he is doing and lets us know. Thus I have learned to read the Bible a bit differently than others, and am here trying to get us in sync with his program.
About Me
- Name: Daniel C. Branham-Steele
- Location: Southern California, United States
Discovering that God is real and the world is per the Bible (Spirit based, not matter based), I realized everything I thought I knew--my whole secular and religious worldviews--were wrong! Studying the Bible in light of the God I discovered, I have found that most things taught about it are wrong, too. God is right, and the Bible was originally, too, but it has been edited, corrupted, falsified, mistranslated, misread and misinterpreted to mitigate our understanding of its message of oneness. "God is One," includes YOU!!!
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2 Comments:
Hi Dan - do you have any potential advice for me? I have been imagining more wealth, and I suddenly have the opportunity to join a civil lawsuit for damages that could result in quite a significant amount of money. However, I have no desire to sue this organization, while it did some negligent things towards me it has also done good things. I am afraid to sue, and go against Jesus and Paul who discuss "turning the other cheek" and not suing anyone. Yet - is this not a fulfillment of God manifesting with me? Wouldn't it also be rude to deny the opportunity? I'm very confused. Staying anonymous for personal reasons, but I've commented here before and been following your blog for a few years. Thanks so much for any insight.
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Anonymous, at 8:39 AM
I really cannot comment on the appropriateness of your joining a lawsuit. It comes down to "Let your yes be yes and your no be no." Did you suffer loss and harm due to their negligence? Then a suit might be necessary unless they want to settle with you directly. But the opportunity is not to be harvested just because you can make some bucks out of it. Opportunities to become wealthy come up all the time; there is nothing special about this one. "Desire for wealth is the root of"...something or another. If you are leaning toward forgiveness and letting it go, maybe that is the Holy Spirit saying, "Time to learn this and move on. We have bigger fish to fry." Just an opinion; I don't have a "word" on this except the obvious stuff that is making you afraid. Don't be afraid - God loves you either way you go.
I will give you an example, though, of what recently went on in my life. I had to help in another person's project which required me to buy a whole bunch of plumbing type stuff from a hardware store on a credit card. Some things could not be completed, and I had to make two sizeable returns. In the first one, the clerk gave me cash back directly, as I had paid off the charge. In the second, I was informed that by policy they would have to send me a check. By no means could I get cash back directly. The first clerk had made a mistake in giving me cash. Now, here is the thing: a) when the first clerk gave me the refund, I became distracted and wound up walking away from the money on the counter. Someone else took it; b) the hardware store was quite distant from where I was staying, and I took a lot of time and gasoline to go to their store repeatedly for wasted, fruitless efforts due to their ineptness; and c) I had to wait two months to get my second refund in the mail. Finally, they sent me a check for the first refund I was not supposed to have received and had lost in the store. WHAT DO I DO WITH THAT?
Suck it up and take the loss. My yes and no need to be what they were. I got my refund from their till, and my losses were due to my own stupidity. I had expectations and had my disappointments. Those are on me. Though I have opportunity to cash the check for the refund I lost at their store, that would be stealing, for I already received the money from their cash register. THAT's where fear comes in. When Jesus walked into T. L. Osborn's bedroom, T. L. said, "His feet were as pillars of integrity." Integrity. Do not fear, but look for your own fidelity to that image of integrity. If you were Judas with the cash box and Jesus was with you when your situation came up, what would Jesus tell you to do? (And by the way, you are Jesus.)
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Daniel C. Branham-Steele, at 4:03 PM
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