Cosmos

Did you know that the part of your brain responsible for helping you to feel empathy and compassion shuts down in high stress situations? Why is this? Because your “fight or flight” response kicks in, and in that moment, your brain is in survival mode. When you are in survival mode, you are really only thinking of yourself, and so, empathy, compassion, and a desire to help others is not high on your it’s list of priorities.

Did you also know that living with the belief that God is angry, hostile, and judgmental *ALSO* causes the brain’s “fight or flight” mechanism to kick in, causing the brain to go into survival mode? Why? Because it is a high stress belief system, in which one never truly experiences peace and contentment in life. When one *LIVES* in a constant state like this, what was meant to kick in only in survival situations, is prolonged throughout our lives, literally causing certain parts of our brain to shut down.

Therefore, when one lives with the mindset that God is angry, volatile, and retributive, their brains are literally altered, and their ability to feel empathy and compassion for others disappears, causing them to be self centered beings concerned only with trying to make themselves acceptable before a “holy God”. Acts of compassion and mercy are labeled with the Christian cuss word of “works”, and are spoken of as being mere temporal and unimportant things. The only thing that *REALLY* matters, in this worldview, is getting “sinners” to say a “sinner’s prayer”. Feeding them, clothing them, sitting with them and feeling their pain, and showing them empathetic and compassionate love, is meaningless if a person does not “get saved”.

You see, the belief in an angry, retributive Deity literally causes the human brain to become damaged to the point that we become unable to feel genuine compassion for people. We look at them merely as being the targets of God’s wrath who need to “pray a prayer”, and we see their very present, and pressing needs as being trivial and trite things. Religion actually helps us to rationalize our brain damaged actions, and explain them away, but the truth is that we are functioning on pure adrenaline, lack empathy, and are only thinking of ourselves…because, if we were honest, even our desire to “win the lost” is based upon a survival instinct, for we desire to stand before God without having their “blood on our hands”.

My friends, we need to behold a God of love, compassion, empathy, and boundless charity, whose very nature changes us, causing us to see the “world” through a whole different lens. Its high time that we cast away the anti-Christ view of an angry, Zeus like character who sits scowling in the Heavens, with a bag filled with lightning bolts, waiting to “get” us. We need to touch the smiling face of Jesus Christ, and realize that His face is the Father’s face, and we do not serve a schizophrenic, dual natured Deity, who both loves and hates His creation. When we learn who He really is, our hearts respond accordingly, causing us to love not only ourselves, but the world around us.

God is Love.

End of story.

— Jeff Turner


// Oh been there done that with the survival mode..I realize that I’m less interactive, compassionate, welcoming, when I’m stressed out something. Now I know what’s causing all that - stress :P Be stress for nothing, cast your worries into God’s hands, be in lesser need for control over your situation, and you will be so much more free with yourself and around others //

When God addresses us, He affectionately calls us His beloved ‘Child’ in whom He is well-pleased, not adult, not minister, not any other title but simply ‘My Child’.
Does a child cries?
Does a child whines?
Does a child crave for attention?
Does a child has wants and needs?
If all yes, then why are we stopping ourselves from being the apple of the Father’s eyes? Why restrain ourselves with such tight formalities and emotional control, when the person we should be most free to express ourselves to is our Creator, our Daddy God? Does God need our formality when He already knows the deep intents of your heart?
God desires for you just the way you are, come boldly to Him just the way you are, whether in tears or frustrations, our Abba is willing to listen and embrace you just the way you are. Drop the pretense and restrictions, come to Him as a child would freely surrender in the security of the Father’s Love.

There are people who have been waiting all their life to hear someone say to them, ‘you are the one I have been searching for!’, ’ you are the one I have been waiting for!’, ‘you are the one for me!’, ‘you are the answer to my prayer!’.

If you are one of those people, take heart, God is say this to you today:

‘You are the one I have been searching for, My precious lost sheep!’ (Luke 15:4)

‘You are the one I have been waiting for, My long-lost child!’ (Luke 15:20)

‘You are the one for Me to love, pamper, protect and cherish!’ (Luke 15:31)

‘I AM the answer to your prayer, I AM your immediate help in times of need, I AM your comforter, I AM your provider, I AM your healer..I AM whatever you need Me to be’

You May Grow Up, But To Our Heavenly Father, You’ll Always Be His Baby — Mick Mooney

Whenever we pray in Jesus’s name, we are praying as God’s beloved child and if our earthly fathers ‘know how to give your children gifts that are good, how much more will your Father in heaven keep giving good things to those who keep asking Him!’ (Matt 7:11 CJB)

Our Abba comforts us…by singing songs of victory over us :)

‘Hush hush…I will win this battle for you… hush hush…you are the head and never the tail…hush hush…you are born a champion because you are crowned with goodness and favor…you are a person of infinite worth, honor and influence because I made you in My image; you are the heir of My Kingdom and inheritance..you are destined to take dominance and to reign…you are powerful because you are so full of My Love, My passion, My energy and My Life…hush hush…I live in you, we will win this battle together’

I taught Ephraim to walk,
Taking them by their arms;
But they did not know that I healed them

I drew them with gentle cords,
With bands of love,
And I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck.
I stooped and fed them.

— Hosea 11:3-4

This is the Gentleness of our Father :)

If you wonder whether the same blessing which others had experienced could ever happen to you also.. just know that your God, your Father..delights in delighting you.. it pleases Him to please you..He is the Father of Joy and nothing pleases a Father more than seeing the smile on His Child. There’s no good thing our heavenly Father would ever withhold from His Child. With His goodness, we will be satisfied. So just rest, believe and receive. Just seek the Giver, rest in the Giver’s love.

You don’t have to strive to be blessed but rest in the dispensation of your heavenly inheritance because of His Finished Work - you are now reign as the heir of Heaven and Earth. There’s only one work of you that is necessary and that is to believe in the One who was sent to you. To believe is to receive its fulfilment.
Grace is to be received by simply believing. Grace is for the undeserving. Grace is unearned and unmerited.

We can trust in our God because He is a God who loves us, who delights in delighting us :)

You are His crown and glory :)

Psalm 8:5
For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Proverbs 17:6
Children’s children are the crown of old men, And the glory of children is their father.