What is your ‘honey-pot’ ‘hell-hole’ in life?

Are you “stuck” in one of life’s ‘honey-pot’ ‘hell-holes’?

Are you like the legendary monkey who squeezes his paw through a hole to reach honey &, when he “grasps” same, he is unable to withdraw or escape?

Are you “stuck” on some particular desire in your current ‘mode-of-living’?

In simple terms: are you personally “caught-up” in something that seems so vital to you that you tend to ‘keep-on-expressing-it’ in terms: “I want” or “I don’t want”?

On the surface, this approach to ‘life-situations’ seems to makes “perfect sense”. There is no denying it’s logic, in the light of ‘self’. In fact ‘self’ is always ‘dead’ right about anything & everything to do with ‘self’. But, equally, it’s nearly always ‘dead’ to other solutions &, as a consequence, ‘dead’ also, to ever being satisfied.

The demands: “I want” or “I don’t want”: seem innocent enough. They are the kind of, ‘automatic’, responses we routinely make every day. Without realizing it, one is giving voice to something ‘hidden’ deep inside. The Bible puts it like this: “If it’s on your lips, it’s in your heart” (Matthew 15:18): “For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” (Luke 6:45): “As a person thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7).

What all this translates to, in practice, is: one is turning to ‘self’ for ‘full-fill-ment’. The “I” is the big ‘give-away’, whether it’s stated in positive or negative terms. This is called: ‘following a false god’. You are, without realising it, “stuck” in one of life’s, many & varied, ‘honey-pot’ ‘hell-holes’. You have condemned your ‘self’ to live captive to a ‘self-for-self’ life of misery.

We can analyse the above scenario ‘until the cows come home’, but we will only dig our ‘self’ into a deeper hole. So, what can be ‘done’?: who can one to ‘turn’ to? The “key” to life’s conundrum is: ‘all problems are psychological: all solutions are spiritual’.

When one turns one’s desires over to God for ‘full-fill-ment’, you are not denying same. You are placing them into God’s eternal purposes, where they are transformed into whatever God has purposed for them from the beginning. You are, in essence, saying: “What you want, Lord, I, also want” / “If you don’t want it, neither do I”.

Obviously, this approach to ‘life-situations’ seems to make ‘no sense’. It has, in fact, no logic, since it’s based on “Faith-in-God”. All that is on offer is the ‘foolishness’ of the Cross, which says: ‘die’ to one’s false ‘self’ & ‘rise’ to new life. One is trusting in Jesus Christ, who said: “I have come that you may have life & have it to the full” (John 10:10).

Note: when we ‘aim’ for anything in life we need to concentrate on the ‘cross-hairs’ in our ‘view-finder’. This is the intersection of the horizontal & the vertical. It’s what the Cross is all about: “balancing” the ‘human’ dimension of life & the ‘divine’ dimension of life: achieving ‘communion’ of love, joy & peace.

Ponder: “Lord God: You keep him / her in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he / she trusts in You. Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock” (Isaiah 26:3-4).

Daniel (www.konect-1-2-1.com) 9/11/13