When talking to my brothers and sisters in Christ reaching an agreement is still a problem.In my own opinion agreement is important to bring the one accord in the revelation to bring back our savior Christ.I know that everything on our spiritual walk is a process of working with the Father.We each are coming from different walks of life and met Jesus on our road.Some meet Him very early and this seems to be the best way to start a relationship.The child-like faith is open and receptive and this may give me the clue to the problem with agreement when we get older.We are told to put off the old man which in a spiritual sense means to turn over our past to Jesus and He will clean the slate.Many have been called to Christ for the purpose of God.The holding on to your own life and recalling memories of what you think you have done on your own without giving glory to God is the ego.We all thought this before we received the "newborn" spiritual encounter with the Holy Spirit.We are told by our parents and teachers to be proud and take the glory for our accomplishments.Many children even receive stars or awards for everything they do.This feeds the ego self and can cause the child to think they don't need the help of anyone and certainly not God. They start depending on approval for everything they do in this world.Sometimes the seeking of appreciation doesn't come when they do something they get very depressed and grieve approval in other things in the world.The child was first encouraged by approval from their parents and thought it was love and in some cases, it was the only kind of love a parent could give them.This is called conditional love and the condition is for the child to do well in school and get good grades to be loved by the parents.The parents idolize the child and the child's ego is stronger than to the commitment to the unconditional love God gives each child.When we put anything between us and God the child is under bondage to that thought and it is called sin.The grown up adult can turn this over by forgiving the parent that feed the ego instead of the love that God gives.Jesus told us to love one another as we love ourselves.The child that still has the ego running its life is still a child of God.The problem comes when there is no agreement between two children of God.The ego wants to rule in and sets rules for the child raised by pride.They do agree that they love God and accept the Holy spiritual gifts offered to every child of God.They do agree in the words in the Bible to some degree. The one thing that the ego-self Christain cannot agree upon is they fully need God to help them.So the surrender of this self-image ego set has rules of who can control them.When the subject of understanding comes into the conversation they back away in silence and don't speak.They will not take instructions or directions from anyone even if it is in the word of God to come to an agreement with your brothers and sisters in unconditional love.The ego will not allow others to tell them things that will be beneficial to their spiritual growth. They usually say "don't tell me what to do" and this is rebellion and the ego keeps them in this spiritual bondage. Who are they rebelling but their own ego-self? They are holding on to the only type of love they know from childhood.In every relationship after they become an adult even in the workplace,they are ego driven to control.They really think they are doing good deeds for God by controlling other people lives. When in fact their life is suffering for love and use people to get approval or praise for what they do.They may be very kind hearted and loving but the ego self is seeking control over everyone they meet to fill the emptiness in their soul.Most of these children seek the entertainment business for a gratification of the ego self. In some way, this helps but a awaken occurs at some time when the awards and honors fade and the child still remembers God's love.Many celebrities do accept awards and say God helped them.But there are many that think they did everything on their own.The agreement that God is our provider and trust in Him and His word is important to every child of God.
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