Be Happy

There is something you need to know: You deserve to be happy.

Here is something, concerning your right to happiness, that you may not know, and it is found in the saying, "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding," Proverbs 3:13.

The main concern of the Bible's philosophy is the happiness of its student. To the Bible's mind, happiness is retained, or is claimed, or is experienced through both finding wisdom and getting understanding. But why? Why is it that wisdom is, to the Bible, the pre-requisite for happiness? The answer is found in the saying, "The excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it," Ecclesiastes 7:12.

You deserve to be happy. You deserve the best human experience. You deserve to enjoy your thoughts and feelings in peace. We all, being alive, deserve this, but to have this kind of happiness, our devotional mind must first be happy.

The Bible, in the previously quoted book of Proverbs, verse thirteen, states that the happy soul finds wisdom and gets understanding. In order to "find" and "get," a field for finding and getting is implied, even like it says, "He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread," Proverbs 28:19.

The "field" for finding and getting wisdom and understanding is the field of our heart and mind, but if the field should be tilled, then an instrument for tilling is needed. Here is where the Bible's philosophy, and it's experience, comes in, seeing as how "the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart," Hebrews 4:12.

The instrument for tilling our thoughts and feelings for wisdom and understanding is, quite vaguely put, "The word of God." What is the "word of God"? Whatever it is, it is to cause a division within the person, encouraging a self-reflection for a resurrection. This "resurrection," being the main factor for a wisdom and understanding stirring up and maintaining love for self's character, is the key to our happiness.

The "word of God" is , as we can make out from Paul's statement in the book of Hebrews, a counsel for personal and devotional enlightenment. This enlightenment is best illustrated through the portrait of the living God's chief apostle suffering between heaven and earth.

With it written, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law," Galatians 3:13, and, "The strength of sin is the law," 1 Corinthians 15:56, Paul is laying out a principle for interpreting what we are seeing when observing this particular individual crucified. That crucified body, representing a religious philosophy pronouncing personal and devotional righteousness, beauty, and piety from doing handwritten religious laws, represents the annihilation of such a philosophy. This is why it says, for example, "By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight," Romans 3:20.

Being crucified, and later reading that this body "was caught up unto God, and to his throne," Revelation 12:5, separated from the scene of its crucifixion, figuratively illustrates the existence of second and better philosophy for the conversation's conscience. This second and better philosophy is one calling into action the thoughts and the feelings for acquiring knowledge to regulate the conversation’s conscience, which is why it says, concerning the present devotional experience, "By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many," Isaiah 53:11.

The instrument to till the ground of our personal and devotional heart with is the understanding taught through the illustration of the living God's minister suffering crucifixion. Applying self to the philosophy contained within this illustration will, because of its ability to challenge the character, add wisdom and understanding to the person. This addition, due to it edifying self's thoughts and feelings, is what increases practical happiness, the lesson being that with devotional clarity, and with the person willingly experiencing internal turmoil from the challenging science of the Bible's wisdom, acceptance, contentment, patience, and love of self, will take place.

You deserve happiness. You deserve to be loved. But to be happy, and to be loved, we have to first love our self. So that we do not manipulate the affection of another, taking their affection to be a prescription for the love we will not first bring our self to demonstrate to its self, we have to break up the ground of our heart, challenging our beliefs and questioning our reality. The greatest route to do so, because we are not primarily natural or physical creatures, is through the mind of our personal devotional, religious, or spiritual philosophy. Doing so will enlighten us to our peculiar inward person, leading us to appreciate the character hidden within it.

So be happy. I know I want to be happy, and I do what I publicly do so that even one mind can understand that happiness isn't given, but is rather grown. We are happier when our mind is sober, so, for the sake of your human condition, grow in knowledge of the Bible's present wisdom for happiness.

Live Well?

What does it mean to "live well"?

This phrase, "Learn how to live well," is written on the clothes I design, it is the main subject I write about, it is the main theme of my prayers, it fills up the content of my discourses, and when talking with me, you will hear me advise to learn to live well. But what does it actually mean? Where am I getting this phrase from?

I've learned this saying from within the Bible, where it says, "Learn to do well," Isaiah 1:17.

The number one instruction in the Bible is to learn how to do what is “well.” What, then, does it mean to do well? Because the inquiry is into the Bible's opinion of what is "well," we ought to silence our thoughts on what we believe is "well."

If I wanted to live well, I'm sure I could think of ways; whether they are injurious or not, because they come from the natural part of my being, who cares; of living well, but our inquiry, because we are honest enough to say with Paul, "That which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I," Romans 7:15, is in a philosophy greater than the philosophy naturally engraved into the human being. If I wanted to live well, I could never live well. I am not created with knowledge of well-living, which is why we ought, when desiring answers of government from the Bible, to silence our thoughts on what we believe is "well."

We actually do learn what is "well," and the living God does share with us what is "well" through the illustration of His chief apostle suspended between heaven and earth. "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances," Ephesians 2:15, His minister "hath redeemed us from the curse of the law," Galatians 3:13, teaching that the beginning of "wellness" is understanding that "the strength of sin is the law," 1 Corinthians 15:56.

To do "well" is to do exactly what this illustration is saying. If we would "do well,” we would refrain from what the living God has categorized as "sin" to honor the saying, "Put off concerning the former conversation the old man...and be renewed in the spirit of your mind," Ephesians 4:22,23.

Paul is citing the fact behind that illustration. What was crucified was an "old man" or an "old" devotional philosophy encouraging an "old" devotional manner. This "old" devotional philosophy is as Paul says, a religious conversation governed by "sin," which "sin" the living God terms, "The law." This "law" is the general code behind Moses' religious philosophy, which code teaches that justification and righteousness comes from doing what is handwritten by theologians. The crucifixion of that body means the annihilation of this religious philosophy, and when consenting to let the conversation die to this religious code of service, we are actually consenting to do what is, according to the Bible's philosophy, "well."

Why is "wellness" achieved when dying to the religious philosophy the living God has crucified, abolished, and abandoned? The answer is because personal and devotional health appears when the experience of the conversation’s conscience isn’t dictated by forces outside of that conscience’s will, even like as it says, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God," Romans 12:2.

What is actually happening when the devotional mind is actually being renewed? When the conversation is proving the living God’s words and its character is transforming into the devotional character of those words, what is actually happening? What is happening is, according to the living God, "wellness." Why is the renewing and transformation of the conversation's conscience considered to be the number one sign of "wellness"? The answer is found in the saying, "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth," 1 Timothy 2:4.

Paul has, in one verse, explained the reality of "salvation," that it occurs when "knowledge" of the living God’s science is entered in to. If we are then correctly tracking the definition of "wellness," we are learning that the Bible's philosophy pronounces the conversation to be "healthy" when passing away from what it categorizes as "sin."

To the Bible, "sin" is defined as the philosophy of the religious law, which philosophy states that the person is perfect, intelligent, and divinely favored through executing what is handwritten or traditionally believed. Crucifying such a philosophy, the living God has removed this doctrine from His religious character, letting every willing mind know that "through knowledge shall the just be delivered," Proverbs 11:9. The regeneration of the conversation's conscience from that slain and abolished religious philosophy is the true definition of "salvation," which is why it is the living God's will that our faith's mind understands the knowledge or science of His mind's intention, because when enlightened, and when turning away from what is annihilated, the personal and devotional self will be "well."

So what does all this mean? How does any of this answer the question of "living well"?

To "live well" is to first begin to edify the devotional mind away from what is crucified. When "living well," our mind is actually drawing nearer to the living God's words without the support of popular theology and pre-conceived nations. When "living well," our faith's mind, as it proves the Bible's philosophy, is coming into contact with facts regenerating its understanding on the living God's religious character, and when this takes place, our devotional mind will begin to counsel our natural mind, giving to us the equilibrium we need to live in a state for developing peace.

So, what does it mean to "live well"? It means to become informed on what the living God has categorized as "sin," to refrain from it. Refraining from what is categorized as "sin," we embrace "wellness" by understanding the living God's logic behind categorizing the code behind Moses' religious philosophy as "sin." This understanding will lead to the beginning of learning how to live "well," becoming more inwardly whole through the knowledge we gain when learning of and proving the Bible's philosophy.

The goal of the Bible’s philosophy is for its words to reach our natural mind, to edify it. When refraining from what is spiritually inherited and self-cultivated, the exercising of our mind on the Bible’s words, and on our experience with those words, will give us good knowledge on how to live “well.” This is the entire point. We are to be rational beings living not according to our natural mind, but to the edified mind that is within. Honoring the devotional philosophy the living God calls “well” is the beginning of our inward wellness, which philosophy we need if we should ever think to reach our highest individual potential.

A Reason To Love

Why exercise love?

If the true synonym and definition of "love" is "edification"; as it says, comparing two verses revealing this definition, "Ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another," 1 Thessalonians 4:9, and, "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another," 1 Thessalonians 5:11; what benefit is gained when exercising love?

When we love, when we edify, we transcend our present level of consciousness to enter into a higher level of personal and environmental awareness. When we edify, we are refreshing another mind. When we edify, we are allowing that other mind to form connections that it never knew existed. To edify is to then correctly comfort, and when "comforting," we demonstrate the living God's devotional character, who says, "I, even I, am he that comforteth you," Isaiah 51:12. 

What does it mean to "comfort"? We find the definition of the word, "Comfort," in the saying, "Ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted," 1 Corinthians 14:31.

If "comforted" by the living God, one is learning from the living God. If learning from the living God, one is being edified by the living God. If edified by the living God, then one is actually loved by the living God. This is why it says of one taught by the living God’s wisdom, "The LORD hath loved him," Isaiah 48:14, and, "I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee," Revelation 3:9.

When the living God "loves," or "edifies," our conversation's conscience actually undergoes a transition. That transition is from depending on the pen and judgment of theologians to living by the devotional knowledge engraved upon the heart of the mind when learning of and proving the Bible's words. 

The intention behind the Bible's wisdom is to cut the conversation off from the theories of trained experts on religion to revive the conversation through "comfort," which is why it says, "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; and forgettest the LORD thy maker"? Isaiah 51:12

The point is to understand that the devotional mind has a Creator, that by learning of our personal faith’s Creator, we may retain principles of wellbeing to know that our human being is blessed by the same Creator. In this sense, the "love," "comfort," or "edification" of the living God is for advancing our level of personal and devotional consciousness, and when "loving," we are to do the same for another mind. 

We may now know why it says, "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." 1 John 3:16

The living God laid down His "life" for our conversation's conscience. What is this "life" that was offered? Since it says, "Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee," Psalm 63:3, we may know that the "life" offered is the "lovingkindness" offered. 

What is the living God's "lovingkindness"? It says, "Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me," Psalm 40:11, and, "Thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth," Psalm 26:3, and, "Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth," Psalm 119:88, and, "O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart," Psalm 36:10. 

We learn, from these verses, that the living God's "lovingkindness" is actually His "righteousness." This "righteousness" is His "truth," which "truth" is the "word" or "testimony" of His mouth, and we know how it says, “Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding,” Proverbs 2:6. This makes perfect sense, seeing as how it says, "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth," John 17:17, and, “By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many,” Isaiah 53:11.

Now, if it is written, "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us," John 1:14, it is fair to conclude that the testimony of the living God's mouth found its self perfectly demonstrated by one peculiar mind. This demonstrated “knowledge,” “understanding,” or "testimony" is, in all actuality, what was laid down or offered for our personal and devotional wellbeing. When we therefore read, "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances," Ephesians 2:15, we are actually reading about what was annihilated or cut off from that "testimony," even a religious philosophy encouraging sanctity through the pen of ancient and modern theologians, or “through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men,” Colossians 2:8, and not through “the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,” Colossians 1:9. 

As the living God put His testimony of revival and reform into the universe for the edification of any and every willing mind, so too it is our responsibility to mimic His act, placing into our age that testimony we have received when sincerely learning of and proving the science of His mouth. The character of His testimony is a philosophy of advancing personal and devotional consciousness, making it right to "love" as we have first been "loved." There is then a very great need to "love," and we should not shy away from its course of learning, because we are all born to assist another in their advancing personal and devotional awareness, even like as the living God, though the wisdom of His "lovingkindness," intends to do for our inward person.