What Spoon?

Have you ever thought yourself crazy, unvalidated, or misunderstood for seeing something that no one says they've seen or felt? Whether it was a testimony of what you've seen from an event, perceived, or something you've heard? You're not the only one. We all are living our lives shaped by our own reality (what is real to you) and your experiences in this world. Of course there are facts that we take in from the five senses, but those facts need to be interpreted for it to be "real" to your experience -- in science we know our brains function in interpreting the world through someting called the Reticular Activating System (RAS), which is a bundle of nerves in the brain stem. This tells us what the facts that come in actually mean and it's basic function of survival.

So believe it or not there's a filter by which you process what's happening in the world that determins what becomes conscious to you. Don't believe me? Well, have you ever bought (or began using) a new car and for some reason began seeing the same car all over the place? Would you say it is because everyone just so happened to buy or start driving that same vehicle or would it be because that car now has some meaning or value to you? (That's your RAS aligning with what you see and with what value or meaning you have attached to the car you have.) This isn't to say no one can share some of your values, but our experiences in life are so unique and often what we see are often filtered by how we value and attach meaning to ourselves, people, the things around us, and even God.

"Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?

Morpheus: No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready, you won’t have to." - Matrix, 1999

There’s a difference in trying to dodge all the “bullets” in our own strength with the knowledge “powers” of our true identity that we we’re maturing in.. but there’s an understanding of who we are that causes all bullets to fall and incapable of harming us. 

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"Boy: Do not try to bend the spoon; that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Boy: There is no spoon.

Neo: There is no spoon?

Boy: Then you will see, it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself." -Matrix, 1999

After Neo died and was raised back up, he seen the whole world differently.

That understanding is called the Spirit of God, the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16), the same vision and wisdom and perception Jesus viewed the world by. This does the work for us by giving us eyes to see clearly, through unveiled eyes. If we can see clearly, then we’d be able to see that there’s nothing capable of taking away our life.

"For we walk by faith, not by sight.." in other words.. " we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk not by sight or appearance." -2 Corinthians 5:7. 

It’s always been simple, one thing that was needful for eternal life, to sit at the feet of Jesus, (Luke 10:39-42) to see ourselves as who we are in relation to Him. (Gen 1:27) 

There and only then, we will be able to see clearly and find ourselves saying, "what spoon.. what bullets... what word that I'm not already like God"?

Would you like to see through the eyes of truth? 

You can be confident that it is the will of God, and honoring to his name, for us to see things the way God sees thing. Just ask and be filled with confident hope of eternal life, God's quality of life is our rightful inheritenace as sons and daughters. (1 John 5:14, John 14:13, John 16:23).