Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 13
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After
showing Michael’s writing that there is no difference between “good” and “evil”
in the previous discourse, today we look at the startling statement by Michael
of “God’s ideal in terms of the scales we have just been discussing is ZERO.” (capital letters are my
emphasis)
Wow! How amazing!
Thank you, Michael. Man has
allowed the enemy to dictate a scale and the pattern of God’s acceptance…and
rejection (?)…of our actions. See what
Michael says this leads to…
LIVING AT ZERO
excerpt
from pages 34 of SIW (5th printing,
March 1998)
excerpt
from pages 27-28 of SIW (14th printing,
March 2012)
(used with permission from
ALMI):
Since so few are acquainted with God’s
pattern of acceptance and what that means for how they are to live their lives,
it is easy for the enemy to toss us back and forth on the scale from plus to minus. God’s ideal in terms of the scales we have just been discussing is a
zero. Yes, we are successful Christians
when we are living at zero!
But again there is difficulty, for I
fear we have allowed others to define zero for us. We naturally assume that if we get up in the
morning and our emotions are at a minus-six, then we must begin to plead with
God until they arrive at a plus-six. We
have allowed the enemy or others to tell us that our emotions should be at a
plus-six, so we ask Him to appear to us in our living rooms; we confess,
repent, wallow in guilt, and perform a multitude of other gyrations all in
hopes of getting feelings to a plus-six.
In so doing, we pass right through zero, where God wants them, and if we
do drive them to a plus-six, it will not be long before they are at a minus-six
once again. The world would describe this as bipolar manic
depression – a big name for eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The same thing happens with the mind.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Michael
has given us the picture of the vast majority of people struggling day-by-day
to live a “mountain-top experience” in life.
Life on a roller-coaster is the norm for most. “Zero”…a peaceful, non-stressful,
Spirit-filled life…is not even an option.
And it all has to do with focusing on the “good vs evil” complex instead
of eating from the Tree of Life. The
idea that Christ is our life, Christ wants to be our life, or that Christ can
even be anything other than Savior is a foreign concept to the vast majority of
Christians. Therefore, the individuals
and the churches are shining examples of a worldly-influenced operation in
motion.
Just
as Michael has shown that many are “allowing others to define zero for us,” the
church has “allowed others” (including the world) to define almost all of the
finer characteristics of Christianity. We must not let that happen. God has given us His “way of life.” It is the Life of Christ…the Tree of
Life. Well, amen.
Next
time you find yourself on the roller-coaster of life…stop immediately and turn
your focus to the peaceful, grace-giving Lord Jesus Christ.
Join
in next week as we see Michael differentiating between the “mountain-top
experience” and the supernatural life.
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