Good or Bad?

Since childhood our parents teach us what is good and what is bad - and that's good! One thing is when we do not know what is good and what is evil and they give us in the ground. But it is quite another thing when we, who have reached the age of maturity, keep sharing everything around us to the "good or bad". Separation is absorbed into our thinking so much that we have lost unity.

I think that one of the greatest sorrows is that man is divided within himself. We constantly divide ourselves into good or bad, and because of this it is so difficult for us to live in harmony. What do you think when Jesus says to you, "You are the light of the world" or "You are the salt of the earth"? My first reaction is: I can not be the light and the salt, I'm not so good. But the secret is that He does not ask me to be salt and light, He says that it is the fact.

My division in thinking does not allow me to understand Jesus. Separation has permeated me so much that I divide everything. But there are things that can not be divided into good or bad. For example - the light, how can the light be good or bad? Light is even in Africa the light, no matter what it is, it is the light! Or salt, it is neither bad nor good, it in essence is salt. In order to stop shining,  the light has simply to stop existing. For the salt to stop salt it should just stop being itself. So am I, I can not be good or bad, me - it's just me. For me to stop being salt and light, I just have to stop being myself. When I divide myself into good and bad, I'm dying.

"Divide and conquer" is the motto of satan. And the most important battle  is in our thinking.

There are things that we must separated from, for example - a sin, because it is not ours. It is not our property, which is trying to impose a brazen idea that its home is here  in your life, but it is a lie! These things need to be separated from us by the knowledge of who we are. But there is no need in dividing everything in the world.

Look at the life of the beating heart (ECG): up and down - this is life. In life there is no division between good and bad: today you are at the top - it's good, and the next day you're in the bottom - it is also good, all praises the Lord. Look at the wings of a bird, it flies because its wings go up and down - it's called a flight. Because we divide everything as "good and bad", we do not have any unity within ourselves or within the life around us, and unfortunately, with Christ.

When our thinking is permeated by the division into "good and bad" we start dividing God. We begin to point to God what He should be. In the Bible you will find a lot of stories where God does not behave like a cutie, and we immediately start to panic. But the most amazing story to me, which turned my understanding of "good and bad" in God, is Numbers 25: 6-13. This is the story of Phinehas, who was a strange guy, but God in that situation was even stranger.

The essence of the story is that God is once again angry with the people of Israel, and Phinehas stops His anger by committing a double murder. He killed Israelis and the woman with whom he fornicated and this act turned away the anger of the Lord. Personally for me it was a shock. How is it possible to kill in the Old Testament, where the 10 commandments were given, and one of them says  do not kill,  how the double murder could bring forgiveness? If we divide what is good and what is bad, then God can not be understood in this situation. But if you stop thinking as we are accustomed to, and allow God to adjust us to Himself, you realize that God has no division into "good or bad". He is God! And He does what He wants, because He is light and there is no darkness in Him.

He loves and punishes, He has loved the one before his birth and hated the other,  He sent an evil spirit  upon Saul,  He inflicts wounds and heals them,  He sculpts some vessels for honor, others for low use,  - it's God! Why do we think that the punishment is bad enough, that one is hated is bad,  that the obsession  is bad,  or that the vessels created for death are bad! Why do we judge God? We do this for one reason, because we do not understand what is good and what is bad.

Back to the beginning, where I wrote about the fact that we are the light and the salt. There are no good and bad people! Every person has the qualities given by God which people consider bad, but not God. Every imperfection of our nature is also light. God loves me to meet people with whom I don’t like to communicate, because they are also light and salt for me. I think you know what I mean, and in your life there are also a couple of such people. So why do I think that my imperfection may not be light and salt for someone? All I need is to relax and just be myself and everything will be as it should be. Now, stop dividing everything into good and bad, and life will smile at you!