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change one degree

Change is movement along a curve or line over time. One degree broadens naturally for our benefit. Intention is an internal dialogue initiating care with ourselves, so the process begins.

This means outcome. The question is whether we have zero change, and never know or experience what an outcome would have been, or if we see potential opportunity to discover and build.

Change may come from enforcement due to personal crisis, born in turmoil. This has implications, e.g. during crisis we don’t understand what is going on, we react and “do things” not knowing if we have a genuine rudder to guide us as we are in survival mode.

If we learn to make realistic, simple adjustments now, we develop a sense of character and ability for the future, even in impossible situations. If our lives do not know about  the process of change, perhaps due to fear or unawareness, what life-tools do we have apart from what is already in our “toolbox”.

Avoiding life’s problems does not stop them. A ship is easily wrecked. By contrast, one degree of change may determine life itself, or hope instead of yielding to defeat. This is not a theory of life, or a about teaching and philosophy, but is a landscape of future direction and your ownership rather than its absence.

birth of a decision is the change of one degree

It is what we act on that changes our lives. If we can grasp this, we have seen a truth. Decisions are like the seedling that breaks the topsoil. As an analogy, these are either fruit bearing or brambles, meaning decisions are either healthy and appropriate to our means at the time, or derived from somewhere else. A single decision now can open up a critical awareness ten years down the track.

We are not talking about reckless or unfounded decisions either. Poor decisions can show questionable fruit years down the track. If we ignore realities, material or spiritual, we learn and re-enforce how to turn away instead of change. We may excuse our conscience and beliefs with various methods, like faulty logic, learnt bias, emotional defense, personal anger, hostility or even misplaced faith.

Our internal responses to life are real. Often there are answers beyond our current view. What we notice in real life is that a portion of the population first manages a crisis to a degree, then either moves forward by pushing through incredibly difficult barriers or yields to the problem and gives up. There is no condemnation here. We know this pain, but awareness and open contact with others can make the necessary difference. If we ourselves push through impossible situations, we discover some pretty amazing things, being open to helping someone else’s cry. That is the exercise of real Christianity.

Christians are asked to believe in God when praying for themselves and others. What is the point of praying, but not believing in Divine help? This is a co-operative approach towards God. It is not devoid of interaction. If people only follow rules, by default they must judge everything by what they determine are laws. This is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The challenge for us, is do we understand these processes? If we see them, we know more clearly about our own foundations and the relief God imparts to his protections and blessings upon us. How many people have said they must jump out of the boat, actually do so and drown? God knows who He is. What are we going to do about it?

A decision involves free will. Afterwards it becomes a driver that links directly to our actions. Once the act of internal initiation has taken place, there is no reversal except under extraordinary circumstances of struggle. The decision is both locked into the human will, determined, and under contract. Outcomes are either immediate or long term, positive or negative. We decide to move into these positions. Many Christians in their senior years don’t like that they were not taught about correct positioning in Christ when they were younger. This is why Christians sometimes look back and observe fundamental mistakes, such as freedom in the flesh or carnality that carries a distinct characteristic as opposed to responsible freedom. A positive position sits in the background and enables us to take actions when others are literally stuck, as we are learning the right things. It is a bit like exercising. When we first become a Christian, if our minds are way too noisy, distracted, it is a committed process of discipline to modify that. Those who do not will listen to any “chatter” in their heads, are too restless to enjoy reading their bibles or sit in Church, as the discipline was never used. Their inner being will not be able to learn about the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

This is a Christian website so I intentionally make reference to what I can talk about with any of my friends, or in relation to my Christian friends. From that perspective, a Christian aware of a determining moment may ask if a new decision is Holy. Internal drivers are often based on agitation, deeper pain, search for identity, breaking a cycle, or somewhere we would not define as a particularly healthy foundation.

Christians may repent of past deeds when things do not go well, yet still not cast aside the heavy robe they carry. The root cause may go back to an unholy decision made even decades ago. The willingness to be humble and look at the nature and substance of root cause rather than effect or object is also a decision we can adjust to. The “essential” man fights against change when it involves repositioning, or in our spiritual life moving towards a higher experience as compared to governing by the rules of self, what we see in a material world or imagination. It is as if the primary position of “self” is our own worst enemy that gives no inner unity or with others. Such conditions we speak of here have been known for a very, very long time. If such things are way out of sync, there will be no unity. As Jesus said, Wisdom knows all her children. How sad if a person lives their whole life saying they are those wise children when they are not. There is a deeper experience of Christ and His cross of crucifixion for those willing to pay that price, finding deeper awareness of the resurrected Christ.

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If God exists, by default there is a higher moral position to turn with simple heart one degree towards God.

It is His job to bring yourself to Him through your singular act of free will in righteousness.

Our creation has two kinds of tangibles, those material with cause and effect, and those “unseen” that are perhaps more real – trust in God, faith, hope and righteousness.

Some folks do not know of these their whole life. Some learn later in life and are deeply sad at what they lost, but we have the promise that God makes all things new.

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