Bamboozled from Birth
Understanding and accepting that the norms of life may not be the correct teachings or way to live.
I started life bright-eyed and bushy-tailed like every other child, brimming with optimism, hope, desires, and the attitude of a conqueror ready to take on the world. I had a voracious thirst for knowledge, which formed my thinking, identity, and the core of who I am.
Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.
Aristotle
My identity was forged in the identity of my home, community, and society. I didn’t know that my surroundings were moulding me into their identity. I didn’t realise that the information beamed into my brain through the many mediums, such as television, books, social media, school, and the many other avenue entry points of knowledge available to my learning, moulded me to walk a specific road and have a particular worldview.
Why does everyone in society think the same way? It is a question that has never occurred to me until much later in life. Stand outside of your body, look down at the world, and ask, why is everyone moving in the same direction like ants? What pushes them to do what they do and believe what they believe?
What is the purpose of life?
Is this it?
Many of us have hope in religions and the God(s) they testify of. In Christianity they take comfort in this saviour and the day of reckoning, They advocate to trust in his power yet they revert to the world, the banks, the witchdoctors when they need something.
Their God delays in answering.
Still, they have the utmost conviction in their God. Some leave the religion, but they still hold to the God they have been taught. Their worldview has been solidified and they believe because they have let go of the hypocritical religion and the people that inhabit it, they have separated themselves from that false God who delays in answering.
What if like me, they considered that maybe there is a possibility that why God delays answering is because it is not the right God.
Imagine your daughter or son, nephew or niece, or a child you have responsibility for lies to you or disobeys your instructions. You would hold that person accountable and bring them to the point of repentance—admitting what they have done, showing remorse and turning away from it. This scenario highlights two things:
The instructions/commands of the one in charge are important. Following these commands are paramount and creates the paradigm of master-servant.
When going astray from these commands it is necessary when desiring to come back in line, to acknowledging fault and turning away from these actions.
If your charge didn’t do these things, would you forgive them? Would you grant their requests if they did not repent? You would not.
God does not hear the payers of sinners.
We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will.
But he listens to you, right!?
The God you know has been taught to you by the religion you left, or have doubts about. The God you know has been taught to you by the television you watch or the books you read. Your society has taught you who God is, but he delays in answering. Have you considered that the society does not know who God is, teaches the wrong God and possibly does not even like that God.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
High places—places of power, are not ruled by the commands of God and do not worship him. They are ruled by the kingdom of the air—satan’s empire, and not by the kingdom of heaven.
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
Appreciate that God will delay in answering, because he did not even hear your request. He will answer promptly when you choose to place your steps in his commands—not those instructions given to you from birth, indoctrinating your mind in a false sense of security. Those commands he has given through his prophets, written in his word, which every so-called believer fails to read and do.
Break the mould with the courage to grow and walk in the footsteps of Jesus keeping the commands of God. With the help of God the person can change after the age of seven into a new man.
20. That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21. when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23. to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24. and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Are you going to walk or does God need to make the first move?
I believe he just did!