Taking control: Your spiritual surrender to challenges outruns logical route!

Enlightened people know that logic wants congruence of goal and strategy therefore do not listen to logic when faced with important decisions.  The spiritual people are more tuned to limitless universe and know the power of surrendering to receive expressed needs.

Logic calls for efficiency.

Logical people are gifted in formulating goals and setting up planned activities towards achieving them.  If you are like me, you will sleep over the plan and revisit it to look for loop holes and collect all appropriate answers that converge to a clear conclusion.  Nonetheless, there are circumstances that defy any logic and the process of finding one will turn into anchors that will not allow you to take any direction.  This is where logical people suffer ineffectiveness regardless of their admirable plans.  The challenge is; we tend to forget that we are spirits all the way therefore logic must never be the determining factor. In other words, it is not possible to have logical answers for spiritual matters. Secondly, we do not have skills to communicate effectively in spiritual realm. Yes, we shout when we are hurting; but often we do not know how to hear nor identify our answered prayers because we tend to package it according to logical expectation.

Being spiritually skilled to communicate and surrender.

It helps to clear the clutter about your own strengths and ability to achieve things you wanted and presented through logical route. The Bible in Psalms 24:1 says: “The earth is the LORD'S, and all it contain, the world, and those who dwell in it.”  When you have a serious situation which defies logic, it is only then that you will turn to God because you know that nothing is impossible with Him. Only when you face dilemma will you surrender to Him, totally depending on His ability. God has His plans about you and nothing is being withheld from you; all He wants is for you to approach Him with expectation of His positive response as follows:

1. Purpose in your heart what your desire is and the reason for wanting it.  God says you must love Him and others.  Your requests must not be selfish; they must benefit others too.
2. Believe that you will get what you are asking.  God is not moved by your tears, but your faith in Him; that He is your Provider.
3. Love and thank Him because you came to ask in faith. God declared that He is jealous and would not want to share His glory with anyone.  This is why He says He does not want a lukewarm believer.  You must know that He loves you and His answer is always positive and much more perfect because basically you do not have the accurate picture of your ideal world; but He does!
4. He demands positive energy only.  So, as you wait for His respond He advises you to clear your conscience by forgiving those who offended you because you cannot be in contact with Him while you are carrying your negative energy.  He says He will also point your sins and therefore your unworthiness of His attention.

The longest route to reach only part of your plan is through your logical framework.  The shortest and most complete and satisfying is through your spiritual surrender to your Creator who loves you more than you love yourself.  Taking control is seeking the revelation of your spirituality and the power of surrender versus logic. Remember! What you resist, persist! Surrendering is functioning at spiritual real and is the ideal approach to access that which you desire.

Taking control: Love and faith prepare the heart to surrender!

Love is one law through which we must all learn to conform to and trust the Creator to reveal their power to maintain connectivity with Him.  Faith that He knows what is best for us; ushers us into transcending peace and holistic wellness.

Love and faith defined.

Love is the positive energy that defines your spirituality; the completeness which characterize the source from which mankind comes from.  Faith is unfathomable trust and enabling mechanism that is necessary to maintain connectivity and divinity of our higher self.  Love and faith therefore co-exist to maintain access to the powerful and all knowing Creator, whose name is Love.

The concept of surrendering.

Surrendering is yielding to what is through the power of being fully present to the reality.  It is a spiritual technique that enables a person not to apply resistance because that which you resist, you attract.  This then says you maintain your power over negative circumstances through conscious application of the principle of acceptance of your environment. This does not mean allowing the negative energy to invade your inner self. It simply says you must learn to observe negativity without attaching your emotions; thus maintaining your power over such circumstances.

How love and faith apply to overcoming challenges!

Maintaining love is a personal decision.  This means not allowing anything to steal your ability to function in love and applying it in all situations. Yes, it is possible if you learn to be conscious of your driving motives.  For an example, have you caught yourself reacting to a situation?  How did you realize that you reacted and not responded to the situation? Consider the following: You are in a doctor’s waiting room with other patients, all quietly reading something. Suddenly someone pushes a door open and starts talking about the current political scandal.  You can:

a)   React by annoyingly hush that person and start lecturing him to keep quite.  The tendency is to go on to display your grievance for respecting other people’s right for maintaining their peaceful state. 

b)   Alternatively, you can respond to disturbance by looking at this person with conditional compassion:

      He is not seriously ill and feels like talking.

      He is not cultured and do not know how to handle public places.

      He is not mentally well, so he could have done better!

c)    Responding denotes simply keeping your cool and not allowing any disturbance to steal your peaceful state of being (which means be- in- God).

The first two items are reactions of differing degree: The first is a clear negative reaction that shows absence of the consciousness and self control.  Reaction equates you and associates you to the scene at hand; thus reducing your ability to maintain your peace and self control.  The second is still negative reaction. The difference is that you are silently disturbed and are reacting by being judgmental.  The last state of calmness reveals consciousness which surrender to the change of environment without allowing your peaceful emotions to be altered by outside factors.  You are able to maintain peace because it is your functioning principle. It is choosing to control your thoughts for you are the only one who has access to them.

Taking control means ability to maintain your power of surrendering to circumstances through being alert to monitor the nature of your thoughts.  Ego wants to be in control by applying forceful approach to maintain its ideal environment; anything contrary tends to flip into negativity. The principle of applying unconditional love to yourself first then to others will elevate your sustainable access and connectivity to your Creator from whom your peacefulness is guaranteed.