The last bastion of spiritual freedom
 Regular Network Norwich columnist James Knight looks at a psychological obstacle that can impede a man’s journey to knowing God.
Last week we observed seven steps to salvation. This week I want to look at a specific psychological obstacle that impedes a man’s journey to salvation - it is an impediment that attacks right at the heart of something crucial in the steps towards finding salvation - our own sense of self-honesty in progressing through these steps.
When you attempt to find God, you should be aware of this and try to first remove (or ‘eviscerate’ if you prefer the technical term) all those psychological aberrations, for there are many that are quite capable of painting false pictures of Christianity, telling you that the world has everything you need. But try to bring everything that you know God desires into the centre - into the ‘self-honesty’ part of you - and you will find you have made inroads, and in doing so you will begin to see how Christianity ‘enriches’ your world rather than ‘threatening’ it.
If this ‘self-honesty’ obstacle sounds a little complicated, do not worry, it is much easier to move through it than to write about it, for when writing about it we are really touching on deep inner-realities which are very rarely articulated into words. But everyone knows about ‘self-honesty’, it occurs every time you start a new relationship; you look for the self-honesty that your partner is going to have to become familiar with in order to love you as you wish to be loved, while at the same time creating for yourself a few new dimensions which you believe will assist her or him in the process.
In a less obvious sense, you do it when you want to be responsible for all the good things your children are becoming while at the same time wanting them to learn things outside of parental influences so that they can become all the things that you wish you were; so that they can escape those few regrettable characteristics that you possess and hope they never possess; and so that the things which you are afraid of, they never will be.
I believe that one of the Devil’s favourite tricks is creating self-delusion through ‘lukewarm’ sensations - conditions under which we are very unlikely to explore the Christian faith very much at all and yet remain content in apathy or stoicism. In the book of Revelation chapter 3, there is a severe warning about becoming lukewarm - in fact, it is better that you are hot or cold than lukewarm. Lukewarm is the most stuporous position of all; if you are hot the Devil will blow cold, if you are cold he will continue to show you even colder things which will appear to you as justifiable substantiation, but if you are lukewarm you are so often at the farthest point from salvation.
This is part of the problem with the contemporary age - compartmentalisation has occurred (as we observed in one of my recent messages - many have tried to put God in a box); moreover, factions have been created, and coteries have been cultivated so that mutual respect has become an apotheosis of modern human relationships. But this soon goes bad and you see men subsumed by their own pride behaving in ways that cause a perennial disguising of their own true and real self-honesty.
In fact, I would say that the present time has more self-delusion than any other time in the history of mankind. But of course, in humanistic terms, this self-delusion is quite capable of producing as many good things as there are bad; for every deplorable street gang, there is a think tank, or PFI group, or quango that believe they are improving services or the infrastructure; for every business venture there is a charitable venture; for every invasion there is a peace settlement. The point remains the same throughout. God is trying to improve a man’s actions, yes - but by improving his heart. You do not get rid of mice by simply taking all the cheese out of the house.
That is why the scriptures are so unremitting when it comes to discipline and staying on the right track; for in that dark tunnel of the coldest land of fantasy which seems to have expunged gratification and fulfillment from its world, you start to realise in those brief moments so lucidly that you do not even know how to remove yourself from this nightmare. You had all the time taken the Holy path away, rubbed it out like a bad drawing, and left yourself with no possible escape.
Yet in the face of all this, God wants you to know that what is of paramount importance in all this is your awareness of when you are increasing the proximity between yourself and God. Just as comfortable shirts are the ones that you do not really notice you are wearing, your gravitation away from God is at its worst when you are oblivious to the fact that it is happening. The extent of the problem, that is, the reason why this gravitation is occurring is far less important than the fact that it is occurring. In one sense, avarice can be worse than burglary if it is the avarice that is causing the greater distance between a man and God.
 And we all know how earthly life can distract us. If we think carefully and candidly, it is quite difficult to find situations when we do not take the intrinsic pleasures that really should be underpinned by humility and pervert them into something we can use to bolster our reputation, or improve our status, or stimulate superlative feelings. If you can ever locate these real pleasures where none of the above is apparent, treasure it, hold on to it and keep it, for it will help you destroy those dreadful things that you, that all of us, give value to. The pleasure that those brief moments of solitude bring you, they are the best moments because they make you feel that you are beginning to recover your real self. Of course they soon pass, a knock at the door, an errand for a neighbour, and it is gone again. So what must a prospective Christian do to avoid this?
Well for a start, seek out all the enriching things that faith brings - passion, dedication, fulfillment, wisdom, spiritual growth, perseverance, strength and tenacity - you see, foolish people think that faith in Christ is intellectually impoverishing, but nothing could be further from the truth. It enriches our intellect more than anything else in the world, because it is bigger than the world. If God created the universe for us, so that He could love us, nothing that has His name on it will be a surprise or a novelty when it sweeps through our cognition. Nothing that is concomitant with His ultimate plan for you will feel discordant to you, or alien to your real needs. You will see that every pleasure is created by Him and everything that distracts you from Christ comes from the Devil. That is why God says ‘Do not be yoked with unbelievers’ - He does not mean we should be detached from them, nor that we should not make every effort to care for them and help them to Christ - He means that we place ourselves in great danger if we become yoked to things that are not part of His plan for each of us.
It brings me no pleasure to say this, but modern day Britain is in quite a terrible spiritual state; the ways of the world have led so many people away from God, to the extent that in this country it can be quite hard to get people to take Christianity seriously - a proprietary false-intellectualism has formed in the minds of many unbelievers and has left a trail of self-congratulatory elitism which is making it harder to reach people with the good news of Christ. Christianity is dying out, they say. Science has taken over, they say. But it is not so. There are, I would say, as many scientists that believe in God now as there were 100 years ago. And it is quite obvious that virtually all those scientists who are unbelievers are not unbelievers because of their science. We live in a country, in a world perhaps, where men and women are using all the wrong solutions for all the wrong problems. A lot of collective clarity is needed. Modern men are pruning hedges with fly swatters, and fixing punctures with a hammer and nails. But ask the right question with the right frame of mind and God’s promise that ‘all who ask shall receive’ will be fully realised.
And notice what happens when a Christian suggests that there is a new way of thinking about things, that through Christ alone there is a new way of understanding the self. There is outcry - ‘What about other religions?’, ‘What about suffering?’ - but be on your guard, they are trying to espouse relativistic theories whilst still hanging on with every last bit of energy to the things which keep them thinking as they do. They are happy to espouse liberty, until they see freedom causing inequality. They ascribe huge value to their own emotions but dislike it when someone calls for them to develop a better self-understanding and a better awareness of self-honesty. Christ calls all of us to escape from this worldview, for He does not want us be like them anymore. He does not want us to be yoked to the ways of the world - He knows better than we do that it will only bring us discontentment in the long run.
When we enter into the Christian world we will see amazing things. We will talk to people and hear hundreds of examples of God doing amazing things, hundred of stories of miracles, healing, supernatural visions, and revelations - it is all very real - it is all very true. To live your life without these things is only half-living. When you are ready to know Christ - forget about the past, do not for those brief moments look ahead. Just try to locate Him right there and then in the present. The present is the only place you will find Him. I’m reminded of a sign which pretty much sums up most modern day thinking. It says, ‘Nothing will be made right today, but all will be made right tomorrow’. And of course it says the same thing every day - nothing ever changes, tomorrow never comes, the promise is never kept. Men always think that one day everything will be all right. One day it will; but only if they have let Christ into their hearts.
God describes Himself to Abraham as ‘I Am’, and that is exactly what He is. He makes no allusions to the past or the future when He is describing Himself. That must come after. For now, He is only interested in your present. He wants to know you now. Do not look backwards; He is not called ‘I Was’. Do not keep putting things off, casting everything onto tomorrow; He is not called ‘I Will Be’. ‘I Am’ is what He is - You belong to Him just like a branch belongs to a tree. There is no other way to live; there is no glory to be found anywhere else. Anybody that prays for Christ to enter their lives will receive Him, and in doing so, they will receive Divine revelation and all the riches that come from knowing the Creator of the universe.
Another message next week.
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| | | James Knight (Guest) | 30/10/2008 09:34 | APPENDIX
In addition to this two-part message I have jotted down some streams of consciousness, examining further the deeper parts of human psychology in relation to this exploration. It won’t be helpful to all of you, and if it does nothing for you, leave it and move on. But I thought I’d add it in case it appeals to anyone or proves useful as an appendix to the ‘salvation’ articles.
1) SELF-HONESTY
The only way that this can prove to be negative is if those ‘self-honest’ things are made into anomalous dimensions of the self because the ‘dishonest’ things become habitual instead. That is not to say that you will see someone and call them ‘dishonest’ - but you will see them and say that they live in delusion. I do not mean for you to think that any of this really refers to our actions - I am only talking about the heart. You can see a man with a good heart that has gone bad because of self-delusion.
A good example is our perception of good and evil, which is, of course, in the process of being modified as we come closer to Him. I will try to show you how it is affecting people psychologically.
2) GOOD AND EVIL
Inside every one of us there is some goodness and some badness; and the two are often intertwined quite inscrutably - thus to recognise the badness is, indeed, part of the goodness, and to only see the goodness is part of the badness. Take that into human interaction and we see the real psychological trick operating. When we are treating people in accordance with our real feelings for them, things are not so bad - but when our favour is given to those that are peripheral in our lives and our disfavour is given to those in close proximity, the confusion starts. Our disfavour becomes abundantly tangible, fervent and honest, and our favour becomes quite abstract and illusory.
We then become susceptible to appreciating certain bad qualities and also perceiving some good qualities to be dull and boring. You see it in extreme cases when a woman thirsts for a bad-boy - she will let him beat her and cheat on her so long as she can carry on enjoying his badness like a dog enjoys scraps of meat. But all sensible people on the outside know that she is gravitating towards perdition. Concentrically, her composite being is all muddled up - the deepest part of any human being should be the self-honesty which is going to be necessary in everything beneficial.
The next deepest is cognisance; for one’s perceptive qualities work in correlation with the self-honesty. And next comes that which she is able to create for herself - the self-transcending entities like art, literature, and poetry. They are not the self, but an expression of the self. Now when these things become entangled, the desires of a human being can become quite confused and distorted; thus you see people believing that art, when it is acting as a sort of catharsis, really must be pertaining to latent desires wholly detached from self-honesty. You also see this happening when people follow false gods or when they cut themselves for the attempted release of inner-pain.
Now of course, I could go into it far deeper than this, but that would be straying from the point. We would be peeling the skins of an onion, and there is no need to do so - we would be discussing subsidiary, and somewhat superfluous, issues. But this leads me to..
| | | | James Knight (Guest) | 30/10/2008 09:38 | 3) CHASING REALITIES
God has created us so that our love for Him and our desire for change bring forth a collective pleasure whereby an absence of either the love or the change negates the collectivity. A simple example will show what I mean. Let us suppose that we could measure the maximum pleasure that a human being is capable of feeling for his or her beloved - what you might colloquially call ‘the most in-love person in the world’. Let us call that feeling “#”. And let us suppose that there are two people in the same room (perhaps they are a couple, perhaps not) who have the feeling “#”. You could say that in the room, the combined feeling has produced “2#”; but you would know just as well that the feeling “2#” could not occur in any one person. I can think of no analogy that describes perfectly what I am talking about (I am doing the best I can) but that one, I think, shows us that there is a significant difference between mistaking any kinds of pleasure, fulfillment, contentment, satisfaction and awe as realities detached from His Being and going for what we perceived to be cumulative pleasures detached from the whole; that is, from the essence of pleasure itself.
In this quest for salvation that we have been discussing, it is not going to be helpful to chase illusory things, for chasing illusory things is a distracting problem in the contemporary world. It is not so different to a child who thinks that there is gold at the end of the rainbow. This is one of the most significant parts of psychological trickery - Christianity is looking to protect your future, your eternal future, but most people have convinced themselves that the future will, by itself, work out ok; that somehow all the existent supernatural elements in the whole of nature will make things right. If, on the other hand, you can make yourself aware of the true necessities of the present, that all the things you are going to have to offer to God to secure your salvation are fixed here in the present, you will be on the right road. Along the roads there are many signposts, revealing to you things about yourself that you knew all along but were never comfortable with.
There is a part of all of us that gets sucked into the individualistic way of thinking, and there is equally a part of us that thinks of collective things. When you have learned how to stratify the two, you will begin to understand yourself a lot better. I would say these psychological tricks that we are discussing have two effects; either they make a man become apathetic or they turn him into a beast. An example of the first kind would be a man who enjoys being different by self-exclusion rather than by progression. An example of the second kind would be his disingenuous pursuit of love based upon premises that are detached from feelings and commitment.
At its worst you see it in folk who are addicted to soaps; they end up finding the behaviour of the characters irresistible, yet at the same time hoping that nothing like that ever filters into real life. It is vicarious and, at its worst, quite misleading. Not only does it provide vacuous escapism where none is necessary, it lets us find attractive things which we would, in the ordinary sense, not wish to happen to us. It tricks us about our real needs, just like a bucket of warm water will feel much warmer than it really is if your hand has been in a bucket full of freezing cold water.
This psychological trick - it also percolates into the collective unconscious as well. It causes vogues and fashions and trends - it causes values which bring about a stirring together of men’s pride and humility; thus he will simultaneously espouse humanism and eugenics without ever confronting the disparity. It causes self-aggrandised women to value coteries while at the same time despising lesser-circles. In media circles this trickery causes men and women to desire things that are only partially real; thus you see men buying the Sun newspaper so that he can enjoy page three girls who are technologically embellished to look much more attractive than they actually are. At its worst it makes his instinctive pleasures more valuable to him than any earnest pursuit of love and faithfulness.
But when a man comes to know God he learns something very fundamental about himself. He learns that any temptation back to the old ways are nowhere near as attractive as his close relationship with God. A good example is this. If God said to a man - “Go away for a few days and forget all about your Christian faith for the weekend. Have a few days off - go out have some good old teenage fun, get drunk, sleep with women, behave irresponsibly - a man that had experienced the true rewards of a relationship with God would have no desire to do so (if he was focused on God); he would much rather live as God would want him live because the real blessings are found in Christ’s way - in the full life that Christ offers.
You might have two objections. 1) How do you know that you are not confusing your instinct for obedience with your profuse fear of God? 2) Why then, if this instinct is so strong, do Christians get tempted into sinful ways? The answer you will find if you look at the life of St Paul, or indeed, virtually all the Prophets and Kings in the Bible. Look very closely and you will see that they are not very different to you and me. They all sinned, they all had weaknesses, some temporarily lost their faith, and most important in this example, most of them did not always seem very smart - it took them a long time to see things that should have been very obvious. As soon as we realise that our weakness can turn into strengths we have reached the first step on the road to recovery. Procrastination can turn to patience, shyness to humility, bad-temperedness to passionate striving, even hate to passionate love - all is possible though Christ.
4) OBEDIENCE
Christ came to show us that obedience will eventually conquer our sin, and that fear of the Lord need not mean terror, but awe. Have you noticed how our love for everyday men and women stops us from seeing certain things about them? False Prophets have tried to take away from Christianity God as a man; they have done to Christianity what an unfaithful husband does to monogamy. But still we look into their eyes, we see such conviction in their hearts and usually we look at their error not as something nasty but much of the time as something quite innocent. But to miss Christ as Lord is to miss the point of creation. We must all fix our minds on eternity.
5) THE OUTSIDE CONTINGENCY
Every thought we have goes right back to Christ’s creation of the universe. We are compelled to use that thought as He intended. If you think thoughts or covet pleasure that cannot be from Him, you are changing parts of creation that should not be changed. The problem is perfecting the art of adapting your instinctive desires to His ultimate plan. Watch out for those that criticise Christianity without knowing very much about it; for when it comes to something so profound as Christianity, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. All the non-Christian antagonists that I have encountered have been guilty of u
| | | | (Guest) | 30/10/2008 09:40 | sing things which they do not understand as a basis for opinions about the non-existence of God. But as St Paul says - ‘The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing’. If someone handed you a novel written in Greek, your criticism of it would not be sound until you had either learned the Greek language or else found a copy in English.
6) FEAR AND SUPPRESSION
Those who try to create Heaven on earth, and indeed, those who try to use their Christian faith as a means to other worldly things, are unrealistic. One must not be too afraid of entering the foray; we must try to be more afraid of staying on the outside. Of course, in saying that, I am aware that we cannot really control our feelings. The very words, ’try not to be afraid’ elicit certain impossibilities, for we cannot choose to be unafraid. But we can at least spiritually systematise our feelings, or if you prefer, arrange them into some sort of hierarchy, to which the suppression of each can stand ideally against any reaction to God.
For example, I just said about forays and peripheries. You know very well that fear of doing something elicits very different feelings to fear of not doing something. Going to hospital to get better is a good example. That is why non-believers can smuggle bad feelings about Christianity into the equation by claiming that, ordinarily, these feelings would bring about a positive reaction from all those involved. Thus you see antipathy (which many presume must be a bad thing at all times) frowned upon when it is deployed against reasonable men and women and endorsed when it deployed against, say, a trip to the dentist (‘I hate having the needle in my mouth’ women will say), or against a tyrant (’I hate the man for his crimes against humanity’). One sort of antipathy seems to the employer quite pleasurable, the other quite cowardly, as when a girl has antipathetic feeling towards her much more beautiful neighbour.
| | | | James Knight (Guest) | 30/10/2008 09:42 | 7) BRAVERY IN THE FACE OF DEFIANCE
The Bible says - Blessed are the meek - but I do not think that it naturally follows that God has any warm feelings for timorousness or a lack of bravery. We are encouraged to search hard to find the truth; to be afraid of truth is no recommendation at all. To be afraid of truth brings about a quite dull and stultified pain; it is, if continuous, quite damaging psychologically. Detestation can make you feel better or worse depending on its direction, but fear of real things, fear of facing the truth, has no merits in the long run. Thus it is even possible to hate religion and face the reality of it simultaneously; in fact, hatred, being a stronger emotion that indifference, can bring about an expeditious and quite uninterrupted path to salvation; the hate can turn into love; it had been, all along, love disguised as hate.
And this does not seem at all unnatural. To passionately wish that something is not true can, and often does, bring about feelings, albeit diluted feelings, of antipathy. And sometimes a source of comfort comes to the person which is, in itself, entirely unhelpful. It is when a man who is afraid of truth seeks solace in his own fear; thus he will justify his procrastination, his complete contempt for the truth, by convincing himself that not stroking up a fear is a good thing. But that is not all. This revelation is sometimes what brings a man to understand morality, and in particular, his sinfulness for the first time - just as suicide bombings and gross acts of terrorism cause men to think about the bigger moral picture. Sometimes you see people becoming Christians after seeing something horrific or having a really bad personal experience. I think the reason is because these incidents push people forward into truthful realms - thus a death in the family can cause us to think about our own mortality, a terrible act of genocide can cause us to think about our own feelings of morality and justice. And having been brought into this realm, men and women then start to see the brave search for truth, not as one virtue, but as the primary virtue from which every other subsidiary virtue emanates.
And with this exploration comes the realisation that many of these virtues are conditional; that is, men are happy to be generous until a big test of generosity is in their stead; they are happy to be faithful until a temptation too powerful to resist comes their way; they are happy with their honesty until a time for dishonesty brings about an irresistible personal gain; they are happy to be loving until that which love built its foundation upon crumbles into dislike for one another. I could go on and on with examples.
A brave search for the truth is a positive thing, as is self-honesty. We can fool many people with our words and actions but we can never fool ourselves - for we all know deep down what we need to do. This lucidity has been clouded by so many things, and I have every sympathy with those who cannot find any comfort beyond transitory thrills. None of us will be able to reach everyone - but we are all familiar with those little routes down into the soul; the journeys that suggest there is more beyond the morning gaze. If it ever feels intrusive, do not worry, when we travel down into the depths of each individual soul, we are really travelling down into the depths of everyone’s soul. We are all made alike - as we saw earlier, we all have eternity in our hearts.
| | | | James Knight (Guest) | 30/10/2008 09:44 | 8) PRESSING FOR A POSITIVE CHANGE
To experience the self-honesty and self-understanding that is going to be necessary involves change, not just for you, but for every single human being that you know. It is the change which brings about the realisation, it is the change that makes the journey and the journey which makes the reward. Once again, the analogy of motherhood is a good one. It takes nine months from conception to birth, it takes anticipation to make it special. We teach our children, we nurture them, we influence change - but none of this would be worth a second’s thought if it happened in an instant.
You know when you hear a husband and wife arguing jocularly about ergonomical things, such as the furniture configuration in the sitting room. He can’t be doing with change, he doesn’t think it makes much difference where things are so long as each piece of furniture does what it is supposed to do. But his beloved is more creative - she can see a bigger picture, she can see moods, colours, shapes, different evocations, different energies - it is almost as if they came from different worlds. Their approach is as different as a cat’s is to a dog regarding the tennis ball in the back garden. This is the kind of difference that is going on in your world, in my world, in everybody’s world. Attitudes towards self-honesty and the brave search for truth have as many varying colours and flavours as a box of Quality Street. All of us who have read about psychology know much about subliminal affectation, conditioning and influence. Spend an hour with a football hooligan and you would come away behaving very differently to how you would behave if you spent an hour with a Quaker. All these things subliminally affect the soul.
One needs to be brave enough to search for the real truth. When you find it, you feel like the husband feels when he has just realised that there is more to front room ergonomics than mere comfort and convenience. Remember, as I have said earlier, that all the pleasures in this world were created by God, they are gifts to us. He made sex pleasurable, He made eating pleasurable, and most important of all, He made knowing Him pleasurable. But God does not want us to be living a lie. Just as food and sex are for survival (primarily) and pleasure (secondarily), the search for truth is no different. But notice all these things can be perverted. You could enjoy a good meal but make yourself sick afterwards and die because of it. You could experience all the physical joys of sex without fertility to a ubiquitous extent that the human race could die out. And you could live your life without ever knowing the full truth and miss out on that which you were created for.
| | | | James Knight (Guest) | 30/10/2008 09:45 | 9) THE DISTRACTING PURSUANCE OF NOVELTY
This change that God demands of us is both beneficial and pleasurable once we understand it. In the first place, our desires are increased to such an extent that we do not seek pleasure simply for its intrinsic values; we seek it not just as means to an end, but as a means to furtherance. The real confusion occurs when people confuse novelty with genuine change. We covet novelty, but if we pursued this covetousness to the bitter end we would end up with nothing. That is why we have to impose limits on ourselves - we only have limited finances, limited energy, and limited cognitive resources. The problem with the continued pursuance of novelty is that it is only showing us elliptical glimpses of the true plight of stagnancy. It beckons us with a frivolous promise that the continual pursuance of novelty will never cause us to feel stagnant; that this bus has no stops - the journey to our destination is uninterrupted. It is a huge resounding lie. In this modern world we can see quite clearly that the fashions and trends of micro-evolutionism; that is, the continual human need for novelty, change, and productivity casts a huge cloud of fog over that which is really desired - a sublime change deep in the inner-self. Novelties are (usually) nothing but distractions from the real essence of being.
| | | | James Knight (Guest) | 30/10/2008 09:46 | 10) ON THE THRESHOLD OF A DREAM
If we are not careful we can become quite agitated if we do not recognise our proximity from that which is calling us forward. When this occurs it is never rational - you are finding repellent that which you want to be yours. This is what I think it is like. It is like a very uneducated man becoming annoyed when someone in his group uses a word which is, to him, a ‘big word’, but is, to anyone with even the most basic education, part of everyday common parlance. Those who are earnestly seeking truth whilst ruling out any possibility of God are really attempting to gratify one taste and at the same time negate the other. It cannot work; thus you never see an atheist who has any eternal purpose in the depth of his soul, in the same way that you never see a serial cheat with true love’s ‘glow’ on his face. Both are always searching for more, for something bigger that can fill a vacancy in their hearts - a vacancy that was created by God to be filled by God and God only.
And if this brave pursuit of truth is undertaken with parts of you held back, with compromises, with the bending of ultimate reality into something that suits human capriciousness, you will experience no new things - you will be forever stuck with the day to day repetitions. You will enjoy the contrasts between summer and winter, sure, but you will long for something to come along and show you a bigger reality than the one in which you are operating. But follow Christ and experience the Spirit inside you and you will see that every day brings changes that you did not know existed. To the child it must be like being stuck on the top of a skyscraper being chased by an army of men with guns and finding out that the man you are with can fly. He takes your hand and brings you through the clouds to safety.
Best regards
James
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