I have notice that when most of us pray , we pray for good things to happen to others, to ourselves, to the world etc.
We sometimes see our prayers answered, sometimes not.
I believe that the spiritual world is in balance.
The tree of knowledge has two sides, good and evil. Both limbs are of equal length.
We stand in the crook of this tree seeing both limbs, one on each side of us. We must start our lessons on good and evil by starting to climb these limbs. Witch side do we start on. The easy side off goodness or the harder side of evil.
From Eves point of view, She already has an example of good in the garden. God has already stated that it was good. Will she chose to learn about something she already knows. In climbing terms one leg is already up on the good side.
The natural progression then would be to climb on the evil side in order to balance.
This is the choice she made and it was the right choice.
Why is it so hard for Christians to understand this simple truth.
This would indicate to us that we must identify evil and name it before we can climb the other good side of the tree to find the good answer to whatever was found to be evil. This seems to be the logical thing to do.
Why is this simple fact not understood.
To do otherwise, or the opposite would make us look greedy for the good side while letting the evil side go hungry for solutions and answers from us. This would cause imbalance and seen in physical terms, the climber of the tree would have one leg way too high from the other and his stance is quite uncomfortable.
If Eve simply stayed on the side of good, the tree would eventually bend towards that side and eventually break. Not God’s plan.
She took the right path for humanity.
We should thank Her and give the female side of humanity the just reward that it deserves.
How does this effect praying.
We see that good is always slightly ahead of evil on our climb. Should we then pray for more good and throw us off balance. No.
Then should we pray for evil. In a sense yes.
I do not mean to pray to Satan by my comment. I mean that those who truly believe should pray for personal evils “because we can take it” and by bringing evil upon ourselves we take it away from those less able to take it.
IE. Of late I suffer physical pain. When I am in one of my painful times I pray for more pain in the hope that my absorption of physical pain will help shorten the distance that I need to reach up on the next step to the evil side of my personal tree and also for the same to others.
God’s world is already full of prayers for pleasure and good. I think He is more likely to hear from those who wish to shorten the climb on the evil side instead of praying to the good side that is already shorter than the other.
In conclusion.
If we all pray for woes to come to ourselves then we increase the amount of goodness that is available to others. This is the Christian way. This is the message of turning the other cheek.
Regards
DL
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