Dear Elisha
Thank you so much for sharing to me the book “The Hole In Our Gospel” written by Richard Stearns
Richard’s writing have confirmed and put into words the struggle that I have within me
Also, the reading of this book has revealed to me some hidden parts of reality of which I was not consciously aware of, because I have not been exposed yet to this level of awareness of extreme poverty as described in the book
This realisation is extremely helpful to the work I have been working on for the past few years, thank you
Truth be told, ever since young I have noticed the trouble of this world and have been actively working and thinking of a solution to this
Since my rebirth in Christ 3 years ago, the zeal within me for this endeavour only ignited from a candle flame into a wildfire as I read and grow in understanding of every word of Christ and the old testament context of Jesus
To me now, the solution for the apparent problems of the world is now within grasp in this time and age due to our current development in information technology and through the benefit of an additional of 2000 years of historical context since Jesus
As from my youth I have long sought and desired to know the secret behind the fabric of reality itself, perhaps God have granted me my desire
What was hidden to me before my rebirth in Christ is now so clear to me, in fact it stares me in the face each waking moment
I wonder if mine is a lone voice which cries in the wilderness : make straight the way of the Lord
What I am sure though, is that by knowing all this sets me immediately apart from all who does not know what I know, which is probably a very very large part of humanity
So the wilderness experience is very real for me, I can bear this burden because the Lord has prepared me since youth to be able to function even amidst isolation
Though that does not mean that I dont feel lonely, loneliness is what motivates me to teach and to share with all whom I encounter with hopes that what I share with them can greatly benefit them, that they may be healed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
If you have the time and interest, please allow my presentation of what I have found thus far in regards
There are three layers of reality
1 ) Actual Reality : The first layer of reality is supposed to be hard, as how described in “The Hole in Our Gospel”, people just spend 6 hours or more just fetching water alone or are so poor that they can only eat mud from the ground and be exposed to the dangers of parasites and other deadly diseases that are prevalent far from civilisation
Even from the account of Hudson Taylor’s life ( 1832 – 1905 ) , people get sick often and death just seems a common occurrence back then. This was just slightly more than 100 years ago.
From this I am reminded of what God said to Adam in Genesis 3 – Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
2 ) Civilised Reality :Since Jesus came, mankind has made great progress in all areas of society.
Through the benefits of historical knowledge, we can now see how much progress this modern society have made and how much is actually due to the Catholic church and how the first believers faced the various challenging circumstances in their time and more
But all this only in proportion to how much the first believers followed Christ teachings, the world only changed as much as they practiced the commandments of Christ in their hearts
For this I have read : How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilisation , Thomas E Woods Jr
Philosophy and science greatly grew under Catholic governance because through Christ we now have the ability to remove all superstition from ancient greek wisdom
Things began to deteriorate though, when the Catholics themselves began to add their own mysticism and superstition unto the four witness accounts of Christ
Superstition and mysticism are cancerous and very detrimental to the development of mankind
3 ) Virtual Reality :Artificial Man made reality which was initially purposed to enhance civilised reality but have now since taken on a life of its own
For example, the internet which is a great blessing to humanity and has such great potential
However, there are many people who are more and more addicted to virtual reality and it has now become a form of sickness which needs to be cured
A people who addict themselves to this reality will slowly lose touch with the first and second reality and will begin to display increasingly detrimental symptoms such as losing social touch with one another or being infertile and eventually extinct due to their addiction to Escapism
The solution to all three realities lies in the capability to achieve unity in this diversity of realities, in which lies the clue in Genesis 1
In Genesis 1 : God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
So we are commanded to subdue the first reality, which we have done through the second reality though not in full yet
The third reality which was created for ourselves to enhance our second reality but it sort of backfired and a new religion called Escapism is now in place
So frankly things are sort of drifting into chaos and people are sort of just doing whats right in their own sight nowadays which brings rise to problems
Things can only get worse because when people forget what actual reality is like, they will fall to diverse temptation and troubles which affects one another consequently
Hence the proposed solution to this is unity in diversity through dominion of all realities as commanded by God
1 ) To have absolute dominion over the first reality and not be its slave
2 ) To have absolute dominion over the second reality and not be its slave
3 ) To have absolute dominion over the third reality and not be its slave
To have dominion means that we shall interact with those reality on our divine given terms instead of the terms of the world
We cannot ever achieve this without first establishing absolute dominion over the fourth reality : Our Own Personal Spiritual Reality
Our Spiritual Reality = Our mind + Our body + Our spirit
Unity in the diversity of our mind, body and spirit can only be achieved through the renewing of our mind through Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, though living according to each and every of His word and through channeling our purpose according to His continually
So that our mind will think like Him, our body shall move as per His commandments and our spirit rejoices unto what He rejoices only
This is very difficult and its a continual journey of sanctification but I believe that it can be accomplished
For the purpose to aid this I have assembled this firewall of logic and reason
The Firewall of Logic and Reason
In the area of money – https://www.facebook.com/notes/eugene-leong/the-problem-of-money-how-to-become-rich/10155283224611084/
In the area of marriage / sex – https://www.facebook.com/notes/eugene-leong/the-problem-of-sex-how-to-get-married/10155469636251084/
In the area of health – https://www.facebook.com/notes/eugene-leong/the-problem-of-health-the-key-to-living/10155929180121084/
These three can perhaps function as a personalised firewall which can help filter out errors in life so that we may focus on God’s work here in reality itself
The power source and core of each firewall is the absolute understanding of the definition of True Love Everlasting http://famecherry.com/love/one-kg-of-love/
In theory, by clearing out superstition and mysticism from money, marriage/sex and health, this should at the very least clear off and avoid chronic life problems so that we can establish a beachhead to focus on the grand task ahead
I’d think of all this as more of a preliminary measure just like clearing off the thorns and weeds before planting crops in a fertile field
I am doing field testing now to see if it works
I hope it does work because outside of this firewall of logic and reason, there is very high possibility of weeping and gnashing of teeth
The Montessori Method
The importance of the Montessori Method put into this context of humanity is that it builds in people the all important foundation of self mastery in terms of sensory perception, linguistics and logical reasoning
Without of which, all the above I wrote would appear as gibberish
Many see without perceiving, hear without understanding, do and know not what they do
Its hard for humanity to rise above himself if he does not have the sense to perceive reality accurately, the linguistic to connect to one another seamlessly and the logical reasoning to navigate reality progressively towards the originally intended maturity of Christ
As in the Montessori method the teachers act as scientific observers, nurturing the children in all self mastery using indirect methods and only intervening directly when necessary.
I find Maria’s writing in regards to this liberty of children interesting as it interacts with the words of Jesus :
“Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
and also an account of Jesus in Mark 9
And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.
And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. For he that is not against us is on our part. For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
And whosoever shall entice to sin ( Greek word : skandalizō ) one of theselittle ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
This is highly fascinating because it seems that Jesus is saying that children whom believes in Him there is something within them which brings forth fruit of the Kingdom of God into this reality
and that we as observers and nurturers shall not cause them to stumble through the demonstration of our sinful ways
If there is chance I would love to look into this further through observation
Nevertheless the Kingdom of God shall advance
Good News
The Kingdom of God Is At Hand !
Indeed, it is at the very doorsteps of our hearts
