Your
eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is good, your whole body
is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of
darkness. (Luke 11:34)
I
can't read certain comic strips anymore. It's amazing how what passes
for funny in our society is just negative cynicism. A lot of it isn't
funny at all, it's just sad.
Some
of these strips have the same theme day-in and day-out:
“Management
will never care about me.”
“I'll
never be appreciated.”
“You
can't trust anyone.”
Yes,
it's just a harmless comic strip, but getting a daily dose of
cynicism, eventually we can start to form those themes as our
bitter-root expectations. At that point, there are spiritual forces
we send out, by our agreement with the negativity, to proactively
work to make those expectations a reality.
Ever
met someone you just instantly disliked before they even spoke? More
than likely, it's because they have a bitter-root expectation that no
one will like them, and you're feeling the influence of spiritual
forces trying to make their expectation a reality by getting you to
not like them.
So
let's take care what we let our eyes see each day, especially if we
know it's negative or cynical. Negativity is not from God.
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